Suspect Held Without Bond In Murder Of Irving Park Bar Bouncer
CHICAGO (STMW) -- A Logan Square man has been charged with shooting and killing a bouncer earlier this month at an Irving Park neighborhood bar on the Northwest Side.
Felix Valentin, 28, is charged with one count of first-degree murder for the death of 51-year-old Angel J. Ortiz on April 2. Valentin was ordered held without bond Friday, CBS 2's Vince Gerasole reports.
Ortiz was working about 11:45 p.m. as a bouncer at Brudder's Bar and Grill at 3600 North Pulaski when Valentin fired shots from the street into the window, authorities said.
Ortiz was shot in the head and was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 5:39 p.m. Sunday, according to the medical examiner's office. He lived in the 2600 block of North Normandy.
Afterwards, a silver minivan with bullet holes in the windows was parked on the south side of West Addison, surrounded by police tape.
A woman who lives a few doors down from the bar was about to take her dog for a walk when she said heard shots.
"We noticed [the bouncer] on the floor. They were doing CPR on him…right in the doorway," she said. The woman preferred to remain anonymous because she "didn't want to get shot next."
A witness said the bouncer was trying to break up a fight before someone "came around the corner and shot him right in the head–dead point. That's when everyone started running. The bouncer was, you know, trying to do his job."
Valentin was arrested about 10 p.m. Wednesday at his home in the 2200 block of North Avers, police said. He has a long criminal history, prosecutors said.
