A Chicago man was charged with two felonies in the shooting death of a 21-year-old woman at a suburban nightclub last weekend, Stone Park police announced Monday.
Kevin Henley, Jr., 35, is charged with involuntary manslaughter and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, police said. He is scheduled for a court appearance on Tuesday.
Zulma Daniela Calderon Pacheco, 21, of Chicago was killed in the early morning hours of Saturday, March 8 at the Mansion Live nightclub in Stone Park after she was shot by a security guard, officials said. Her death was classified as a homicide by the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Stone Park police said the name of the nightclub’s security was a company called JMC Security LLC. The company was involuntarily dissolved on March 14, according to records from the Illinois Secretary of State. A spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions from the Tribune about the dissolution.
The company had operated out of west suburban River Grove since 2023, according to the records.
According to Stone Park police, a fight broke out inside the nightclub about 1:40 a.m. on March 8. During the fight, police said the security guard pulled out a gun and fired a shot, which struck Calderon Pacheco in the face.
Witnesses Izabela Encino and Briana Herrera, both of Milwaukee, previously told the Tribune that they were dancing near the stage at a friend’s 21st birthday celebration when they felt people start to shove.
Encino, 21, said she looked over and saw fighting, and watched a man pull out a gun. She heard a gunshot just as she turned around, she said.
When the two friends made it out of the club, they said they saw a man carrying a woman, later identified as Calderon Pacheco, with blood on her face and in her hair.
Herrera, 20, said she tried to offer Calderon Pacheco first aid, checking her pulse and searching for the place on her head or face where she had been wounded. But she was only able to stay with the woman for a few moments before authorities arrived at the club.
This is not the first time the Mansion nightclub has had a shooting. In 2020, a man was fatally shot outside the club. Mansion also took over Club Allure, a strip club that was embroiled in controversy with a 2014 lawsuit from nuns in the nearby Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo convent.
A petition was also posted on Change.org demanding Mansion nightclub to be shut down following the shooting. It has so far garnered over 5,000 signatures.
Chicago Tribune’s Nell Salzman and Caroline Kubzansky contributed.
