Two men who killed a 60-year-old man in an expressway shooting nearly four years ago while they were both on pretrial release for felony gun cases have pleaded guilty. Joshua Concepcion, 22, and Alexis Perez, 20, were sentenced to 15 years and 12 years, respectively, according to court records.
Around 4:19 a.m. on November 18, 2021, Federico Bautista was driving to work in McKinley Park when Perez, driving a stolen Jeep in the opposite direction on Damen Avenue, saw him and popped a U-turn, prosecutors said.
Perez allegedly followed Bautista onto the Stevenson Expressway and pulled up alongside Bautista’s car as the vehicles traveled inbound near Loomis Boulevard. According to prosecutors, Concepcion fired 14 rounds from the back passenger seat of Perez’s stolen Jeep, striking Bautista in the shoulder and twice in the abdomen.
Bautista’s car came to a stop on the shoulder and remained there for 90 minutes until a passerby noticed it had been struck by gunfire and called police…