Nearly six months after he was shot nine times in the line of duty, a Bensenville police officer is focused on his recovery and enjoys being back in his own home, finally.
Nearly six months after he was shot nine times in the line of duty, a Bensenville police officer is focused on his recovery and enjoys being back in his own home, finally.
Elgin man sentenced to 29 years in prison for murder Michael Giacomino
Updated 2/1/2021 4:20 PM
An Elgin man, who was one of three men involved in a 2017 murder, was sentenced to 29 years in prison Monday.
Michael Giacomino, 34, pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree murder in the 2017 stabbing of Bayron Cruz-Garcia, 36, of Elgin.
Giacomino was sentenced by Kane County Judge D.J. Tegeler.
According to authorities, co-defendant Carlos F. Lopez thought Cruz-Garcia was having an affair with Lopez s former girlfriend, so he recruited and paid Giacomino and Gabriel Lopez $200 apiece to beat up Cruz-Garcia.
The three went to the victim s workplace at 1:10 a.m. Aug. 12, 2017, and waited nearly an hour until he left the building. The plan was to ambush Cruz-Garcia while he was having a tryst in the back seat of a car with Carlos Lopez s ex-girlfriend, according to testimony given at Carlos Lopez s trial.