People v. Rodriguez

JUSTICE ROBERT E. GORDON

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant Daniel Rodriguez was convicted by a jury on September 21, 2005, of the first-degree murder of 18-year-old Ricardo Vasquez. In addition, the jury found that defendant personally discharged the firearm that proximately caused Vasquez’s death. The murder was the result of a gang-related, drive-by shooting on April 1, 2000, at approximately 9:30 p.m., in the vicinity of 8707 South Escanaba Street in Chicago. Defendant was sentenced to 45 years of incarceration, which was the minimum available sentence and which included a…