CHICAGO — A Venezuelan migrant is charged with attempted murder, accused of trying to shoot a co-worker who made a joke at his expense.
“See how you die?” Jorber Pena Acosta allegedly asked the man before opening fire on him outside their workplace last Thursday afternoon.
Prosecutors said Acosta, 26, the 29-year-old victim, and others were working at a packaging company in the 4300 block of South Packers. During a lunch break, the victim made Acosta the butt of a joke at the water dispenser, prosecutors said in a detention petition.
Acosta, they said, did not take it well, telling the victim he’d see him in the parking lot.
At about 1:30 p.m., the victim was standing next to his car, looking at his phone while on break, when Acosta pulled up in a red truck, the petition said. Acosta rolled down his window, shouted “See how you die?” in Spanish, and fired about five shots toward his co-worker, prosecutors alleged.
All of the bullets missed the victim, but two rounds struck the passenger door he was standing next to. Surveillance cameras recorded the incident.
A witness who saw the shooting followed Acosta from the scene and helped police locate him in the 2800 block of South Homan, the detention proffer said.
Judge Caroline Glennon-Goodman granted the state’s detention petition. Acosta is charged with attempted first-degree murder.
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