Crime & Safety

Starface Aurora Man Jailed For Joliet Gang Shooting

Another of the Star-faced Aurora man's 12 alleged gangster accomplices was also captured Wednesday.

An Aurora man charged with gunning down a rival gangster during a wild east side bar brawl was captured and jailed Wednesday.

Antonio “Starface” Luna, 32, allegedly put bullets in the head, chest, shoulder and belly of 29-year-old Osmar Ruiz Sunday night.

Luna and 12 of his gangster associates headed over to Los Diaz bar on Meeker Avenue to take on four members of a rival gang, police said. During the ensuing fight, Luna and another man—Nicholas Pisano, 25, of Aurora—allegedly shot down Ruiz.

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Pisano remains at large but the police have rounded up nine other men besides Luna, most recently arresting Alejandro Lara-Leyva, 19, of Aurora on Wednesday.
Ruiz, who was living in Bolingbrook when he was last arrested in 2014, suffered “very life-threatening” wounds in the gun attack but remains alive three days later.

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