15-Year-Old Gangster Jailed on $1 Million Bond For Allegedly Shooting Teen in Chest

A 15-year-old Joliet gangster shot another teen in the chest outside Joliet Central High School Tuesday afternoon, police said.

Jorge Diaz was charged as an adult with aggravated battery with a firearm and aggravated discharge of a firearm in connection with 3:45 p.m. gun attack on Collins Street.

Diaz and another young man reportedly walked up on two teens outside the high school. One of them said, “What’s up?” and Diaz opened fire, hitting one of the youths in the chest, said prosecutor Steve Cichon.

Diaz is a Vice Lord, Cichon said during a Thursday afternoon bond hearing, and he believed the 17-year-old he shot in the chest belonged to a rival gang.

The wounded youth survived the shooting.

Diaz’s mother and father attended his court hearing. A courthouse staffer told Will County Judge Roger Rickmon the parents can’t speak English but the mother must have understood what “$1 million” means, because when the judge said that’s what he was setting Diaz’s bond at, she broke down sobbing.

The mother collapsed against Diaz’s father as she left the courtroom.

Diaz was brought from River Valley Juvenile Detention Center for his bond hearing. Even though he is being charged as an adult he will remain in custody at the juvenile jail.

Diaz confessed to the cops that he shot the other teen, Cichon said. The gun attack also was caught on surveillance video, he said, and witnesses identified him as the shooter.

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