Palatine man charged in girlfriend’s fatal shooting

A Cook County judge this week ordered a northwest suburban man detained in custody after prosecutors accused him of killing his girlfriend in late November. Sergio Velasquez-Fuentes, of Palatine, faces one count of first-degree murder for the death of his girlfriend, Fatima Lizeth Escalante Matamoros. Velasquez-Fuentes, 43, allegedly shot Matamoros, 42, in the head on […]