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Jesse Montes De Oca, 31, Killed In Brighton Park Shooting, Officials Say

By Kelly Bauer | January 30, 2017 8:24am | Updated on February 3, 2017 11:20am

CHICAGO — Jesse Montes de Oca, 31, was shot to death in Brighton Park on Sunday night, officials said.

At 11 p.m., the man was standing in the backyard of a home in the 3500 block of West 38th Place when someone in a silver SUV fired shots at him, police said.

The man was hit in his back and pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

De Oca, of the same block where he was killed, was pronounced dead at 11:30 p.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.

He was a documented gang member, a police source said.

No one was in custody.