Thanksgiving Day killer thought victim was pulling on car doors in the neighborhood, prosecutors say

A suburban man has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal Thanksgiving Day slaying of a man in Garfield Ridge, a killing prosecutors say stemmed from suspicions that the victim was pulling on car doors in the neighborhood.

Chicago police were dispatched to the 5100 block of South Luna Avenue shortly after midnight on November 27 after someone found Paul Kalec, 27, lying unresponsive in the street. He was transported to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead from multiple gunshot wounds.

A witness told investigators that a man approached Kalec on foot, pulled out a handgun, and fired repeatedly before fleeing the scene, police said. As CWB Chicago reported at the time, cops recovered a firearm and nine shell casings at the scene. That weapon was later determined to be the gun used to kill Kalec and investigators linked it to Negron, a CPD report said…

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