If Jesus S. Valois would have kept quiet, he might not have been standing before a Cook County judge today facing charges of attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery.
Valois, 19, was at the Fiesta del Sol festival in Pilsen on Thursday when he saw Tony Mireles, whom he allegedly shot about 20 times with a handgun on a front porch in the Lower West Side neighborhood in August 2010, according to court documents.
His anger apparently returning, Valois walked up to Mireles at the neighborhood festival with his fists clenched, swearing at him.
“I’m the one that shot (you) 20 times!” Valois said, according to court documents. “What you gonna do about it?”
Mireles, 26, didn’t jump at the apparent challenge to a fight.
Instead, he slipped into the crowd and flagged down a police officer, who arrested Valois for the shooting that, according to court documents, wounded Mireles in the abdomen, pelvis, buttocks and both legs.
Valois also was charged with simple assault in connection with his alleged confrontation with Mireles at the festival.
Valois, of the 1800 block of South Allport Street, appeared Saturday before Cook County Judge Peggy Chiampas, who ordered him held without bail.
