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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Matthew Hendrickson

Man who killed 2 roommates, wounded another, believed they were plotting to have gang murder him: prosecutors

Jesus Hernandez faces two counts of murder and a count of attempted murder in a Tuesday morning shooting in the 4900 block of South Marshfield. | Adobe stock photo

A man killed two of his roommates and critically wounded a third earlier this week at their Back of the Yards home because he believed they were plotting to have a neighborhood gang murder him, Cook County prosecutors said Thursday.

Jesus Hernandez, 59, first confronted his roommate, Marcos Beltran shortly after 7 a.m. Tuesday in a bedroom on the first floor at the building they were living at in the 4900 block of South Marshfield Avenue, prosecutors said.

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