A Venezuelan migrant has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for trying to murder another migrant who killed his friend, also a migrant, on the South Side.
Both shootings occurred inside the same Washington Park apartment building where 911 callers reported armed migrants had “taken over” the complex months earlier. Those reports went viral online, sparking widespread mainstream media reports that dismissed the reports as false.
Henry Brito-Dominguez, 25, pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of Carlos Reinaldo Maribal-Carvajal in exchange for the sentence from Judge Carol Howard, according to court records.
The chain of events began on November 11, 2024, when Maribal-Carvajal, 24, allegedly robbed and murdered Peter Sangronis-Medina inside the building in the 6100 block of South Martin Luther King Boulevard, according to prosecutors…