Chicago man held in weekend shooting of Addison teen
By Christy Gutowski

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A 19-year-old Chicago man is facing first-degree murder charges after being accused of gunning down an Addison teen in a weekend shooting sparked by romantic jealousy.

Luis Villavicencio-Serna was ordered held early Wednesday in the DuPage County jail on a $5 million cash bond.

Police rushed at 3:33 a.m. Saturday to a 911 call of shots fired in an apartment complex parking lot on the 300 block of Dale Drive in Addison.

Armando Huerta Jr., 18, was conscious, but suffered gunshot wounds to his leg and lower back. The Addison Trail High School student, who lived in the apartment complex, was pronounced dead about 14 hours later at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood.

Detectives caught a break in the murder investigation when they searched the slain teen's cellular phone and found a text message from a 16-year-old girl who had warned him to stop calling because it was angering her boyfriend.

Huerta and the girl previously dated, officials said.

"The defendant became angry and jealous with the victim for having continued contact with the defendant's girlfriend," prosecutor Thomas O'Connor told Associate Judge Peter Ostling. "Upon seeing the victim, he has some sort of hostile verbal altercation and then opened fired on him."

Police recovered five bullet casings at the crime scene, but Huerta suffered two gunshot wounds. A bullet in his back left him paralyzed when it severed an artery and ended up lodged in the teen's vertebrae.

Police caught up on Sunday with Villavicencio-Serna at his Chicago workplace. They also interviewed three witnesses who were with the defendant in a Cadillac that morning who said they saw him shoot Huerta.

Villavicencio-Serna repeatedly shook his head "no" as O'Connor detailed the allegations in bond court. Judge Ostling appointed a DuPage County assistant public defender to represent Villavicencio-Serna, who spoke through a Spanish interpreter.

O'Connor sought the high bond after arguing the defendant poses a flight risk because he is in the country illegally and still has family in Mexico where he was born.

The defendant is expected to appear June 1 before DuPage Circuit Judge Peter J. Dockery in Wheaton.

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