Two men are in custody in connection with a murder-for-hire shooting in which a Beach Park man was killed, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
Cristian Ruval-Cavatorres, 29, of Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, is being held in the Racine County jail after he was charged with attempted first-degree murder and firearms charges in the Nov. 5 shooting.
A man, who authorities say hired Ruval-Cavatorres to carry out the shooting, has been taken into custody, though he has not yet been charged, police said.
The men have been implicated in the shooting of a Beach Park man, who was critically wounded by an assailant as he sat in his car at his home in the 34800 block of North Sheridan Road at about 5:20 a.m. Wednesday, according to authorities. Police said he was warming his car up before heading to work.
The man, whose identity has not been released yet, died over the weekend from his injuries, police said.
The sheriff’s office said security video captured images of a suspicious vehicle driving slowly in the neighborhood the day before the shooting. Police obtained the license plate number and, using the Flock system, determined the car was in the area on the day of the shooting.
The license plate is associated with a vehicle registered to Ruval-Cavatorres, police said. Mount Pleasant police conducted a traffic stop on Nov. 5 and took Ruval-Cavatorres into custody.
Police said they discovered evidence that someone had hired Ruval-Cavatorres to carry out the shooting, and recovered a pistol and a phone used to help plan the attack.
The person believed to have hired the shooter was located in the 1600 block of Park Avenue in North Chicago on Thursday afternoon and was taken into custody, police said.
“Our detectives swiftly uncovered a significant amount of evidence that led them to the offender, as well as to identifying and arresting the individual who ordered the shooting,” Sheriff John Idleburg said. “We will continue to hold relentlessly violent offenders accountable.”
