Family of activist killed confronting hit-and-run driver offers $10,000 reward
10/22/2018 4:28 am PDT
via WGN:
CHICAGO -- (WGN) -- Alberto Bocanegra's family is doing everything they can to find out who shot and killed the 39-year-old community activist after he confronted a driver who hit a bicyclist last month.
Family members increased the reward for information leading to an arrest to $10,000 on Sunday.
"My brother's always fought the good fight and he even died for it," Segio Bocanegra said Sunday. "He was always looking out for the neighbors, he was always looking out for whoever he could help, and he always stood up for injustice."
Bocanegra was doing just that on September 25 as he was recording a group bike riders in the greater Grand Crossing neighborhood. When a vehicle struck a 30-year-old female rider and took off, he followed in a car and confronted the driver. While they argued, another vehicle pulled up and someone inside fired shots, striking Bocanegra twice in the neck.
"Alberto was a good person he was an activist he was out there in the community always helping people. He had a great heart, a big heart," said community activist Raul Montes Jr.
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