23-Year-Old Shot to Death on Way Home From Work in Logan Square

A 23-year-old man was shot and killed on his way home from work early Thursday on the city’s Northwest Side.

Around 1 a.m., Isaac Acevedo Jr. was driving with his girlfriend through Logan Square near North Central Park Avenue and West Schubert Avenue when a white SUV pulled up next to the couple and started firing shots, according to police.

Acevedo was struck in the chest during the gunfire. He died at the hospital less than two hours later.

Investigators say the fatal shooting may have been gang-related, but Acevedo’s family stressed that the hard-working young man – coming from his second job at the time of his death – did not have any gang connections.

The unexpected loss has been a near-impossible reality to come to for his mother, Araceli Garcia.

“You would never imagine this is going to happen to your oldest son,” a distraught Garcia said. “It’s something you can’t understand; it hasn’t hit [me] yet.”

His family says in between working two jobs, Acevedo spent his time off taking care of all of his family members.

“It was a life that they took, an innocent life,” Garcia said. “It’s not fair.”

As of Thursday evening, no arrests have been made in the deadly shooting, but his family hopes someone steps forward with information that will lead to the arrest of the gunman.

“If any neighbors or anyone has seen anything, please come out and say something,” his mother pleaded.

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