Man charged with 2018 shootout that left 1 dead, 3 injured at Avondale gas station

Angel Concepcion (Chicago Police Department, Google)

CHICAGO — A man with an extensive criminal history has been charged with participating in a shooting that left three people injured and one dead at an Avondale gas station in 2018.

It’s the fourth time since 2001 that Angel Concepcion has been charged with murder or attempted murder in Chicago, according to court records. One of the earlier cases involved a shooting just a few yards from where the 2018 shootout occurred.

Early on May 22, 2018, two groups arrived at the Shell service station, 3001 West Belmont, and got into a dispute, officials said at the time. One man got out of each car to argue. Another person stepped out of each vehicle with guns and engaged in a shootout.

Officials said a 24-year-old woman was left in critical condition; two men, ages 20 and 37, were seriously injured; and 25-year-old Omar Campuzano was killed.

A Cook County judge signed an arrest warrant for Concepcion in connection with the shooting in December 2018, court records show. However, he has been in custody in New Jersey since then, serving an extended sentence for unlawful possession of a weapon.

Chicago police detectives recently brought him back to face charges for the gas station shooting. He is charged with 17 felonies, including 11 counts of attempted murder. Judge William Fahy detained him pending trial.

According to court records, Concepcion was charged with attempted murder for an April 2001 shooting outside Linne Elementary School, 3221 North Sacramento. That’s just up the street from the Shell gas station. He ultimately pleaded guilty in exchange for a 34-month sentence.

In 2008, a jury found him not guilty of a murder that occurred two years earlier in the 3300 block of West Pensacola.

Then, in a 2011 case that included attempted murder charges, he eventually pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of aggravated battery and received an eight-year sentence.

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