Body of missing 21-year-old Rosa Chacon found in shopping cart in Chicago, IL

Body of missing woman found in shopping cart in Chicago

The woman was last seen getting into a rideshare in January.

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Body of missing woman found in shopping cart in Chicago​

Police say the body of a young woman who has been missing for months has been discovered wrapped and tied up in a shopping cart on Chicago’s southwest side.

“I miss my baby,” said Jose Lucio, who said he doesn’t want to believe his missing daughter has been found dead.

The family says the body of the 21-year-old Rosa Chacon was found Wednesday in a shopping cart, wrapped in a white sheet, in an alley near 24th Place and Western Avenue on the city’s southwest side.


The Cook County Medical Examiner will determine her cause of death.

Relatives say they identified her by the tattoos on her body.

“She was the party type. She was not trouble,” said Juan Lucio, her brother.

The woman was last seen by her family outside her home on Jan. 18.

Home security camera video shows Rosa Chacon getting into a rideshare in the 2800 block of South St. Louis Avenue.

The family says she didn’t take anything with her, including her coat or ID.

“She said, ‘I’ll be back, mom. I got the Uber ride there, and the Uber ride back.’ That’s what she told me,” the woman’s mother said.

The elder Rosa Chacon said she didn’t know where her daughter was going or who ordered the ride for her and that Uber refused to say.


The gruesome discovery comes as a Guatemalan migrant was found shot to death in the same community last month.

Chicago police say they are investigating.

Meanwhile, community activists are offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case.

 

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Little Village residents sound alarm about missing teen after 2 missing women found dead

Azreya Lomeli, 15, is missing from Little Village. Her disappearance comes after two missing women were found dead in recent weeks.

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Little Village residents sound alarm about missing teen after 2 missing women found dead​

People in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood say they're concerned about women in their community going missing. In two recent cases, women reported missing were later found dead.


"We demand that they pay the same attention they would have done when someone gets killed in Lakeview or Wrigleyville or the Gold Coast," Martinez said.

He made the call to action Wednesday morning outside of the Chicago Police Department's Area 4 headquarters. It is the home base for detectives investigating the recent crimes in Little Village that have left some residents living in fear.

"It is hard to believe and hard to comprehend that in the year 2023 we're still finding bodies of women and no answers," community member Selene Partida said.

In February, a Guatemalan migrant was found shot to death in the Little Village community.

Last week, the decomposing body of 21-year-old Rosa Chacón was found in a shopping cart wrapped in a white sheet in an alley nearby.


"Who did this? Why did they do this? Regardless of her past, she is a human being. She is a person and we need justice," said Elizabeth Bello, Chacón's older sister.

Concerned residents added that 15-year-old Azreya Lomeli disappeared a few days ago. They say she was last seen walking toward Kedzie Avenue after leaving a behavioral health hospital south of the city.

Chicago police have not released a motive or identified any suspects in any of the crimes. Detectives say they are continuing to work those active cases.

 

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Vigil to mark anniversary of Little Village woman found dead in laundry cart

The case remains unsolved.

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Vigil to mark anniversary of Little Village woman found dead in laundry cart​

Family and friends announced Monday that a vigil will be held to celebrate the life of a woman whose body was found dumped in a laundry cart on the city’s West Side months after her disappearance.

A vigil for Rosa Chacon will begin at 6 p.m. at the intersection of S. Western Avenue and W. 24th Place on the city’s Lower West Side, marking one year since the gruesome discovery.

The case remains unsolved.

According to police, an investigation into the matter continues. Family members say, however, that the medical examiner’s office was unable to determine what caused Chacon’s death. The office could not determine if her death was natural, an accident, or murder, the family added.

 

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Family of slain woman calls for renewed attention to year-old homicide case

The family of a woman found dead last year in a lower West Side alley gathered Monday evening near the intersection where her body was found to mark what would have been her 23rd birthday and call …

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Family of slain woman calls for renewed attention to year-old homicide case​

The family of a woman found dead last year in a West Side alley gathered Monday evening near the intersection where her body was found to mark what would have been her 23rd birthday and call on police to renew their attention to the case.

Rosa Chacon’s body was found bound and wrapped in sheets in a laundry cart in an alley on the 2300 block of West 24th Place in March 2023. Chacon, 21, had been missing for about two months and was last seen getting into a ride-share outside her home in Little Village.

Chicago police have not arrested a suspect in the case, a department representative confirmed Monday.

In the year since Chacon’s death, her family said they had been leaning on prayer and support from one another. But they’ve been struggling, they said.

 

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Weren't there some bodies found in Virginia, too?

 

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Weren't there some bodies found in Virginia, too?

Yes. There was a man dubbed the "shopping cart killer". Alexandria, Virginia / DC area. This particular man was in custody when Rosa was killed.

‘Shopping cart killer’ Anthony Robinson linked to death of sixth woman

Anthony Eugene Robinson, 35, has been charged with murdering two women in Virginia in 2021, has been named a suspect in three other killings, and is also being eyed in the death of his girlfriend i…

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We have a thread for his murders too.

Shopping Cart Serial Killer, Anthony Eugene Robinson, Washington, DC

Stephanie Harrison Cheyenne Brown The Shopping Cart Killer Police work and the discovery of two more bodies near a small motel in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County on Wednesday revealed what officials believe is the rare case of a serial killer. Robinson's attorney has not...

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2 years after woman was found dead in Chicago alley, activists renew push to solve her murder

Cook County Crime Stoppers are now offering a new $1,000 reward for information leading to an indictment or arrest in the murder of Rosa Chacon.

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2 years after woman was found dead in Chicago alley, activists renew push to solve her murder​

Found in an alley in the Little Village neighborhood in Chicago nearly two years ago, Rosa Chacon's death rocked the community. Her killer has yet to be found, but Cook County Crime Stoppers are making an effort to change that, offering a new reward for information that can help solve this case.

Chacon was last seen alive getting into an Uber on Jan. 18, 2023. Just shy of two months later, her body was found tied up and dumped in a shopping cart covered by a sheet in an alley near 24th Place and Western Avenue, just weeks before her 22nd birthday.

The Cook County Medical Examiner's office said her cause of death was never determined.

"I've been in contact with the sister, and she said detectives have not given them any answers," said Baltazar Enriquez, who leads the Little Village Community Council.

Enriquez said he has been pushing for answers since Chacon was found.

For weeks after she was found, the group's members walked women to and from the train station since many people were so scared, Enriquez said.

Another woman, Reina Cristina Ical Seb, was also found dead in a Little Village alley about 1 ½ miles away just weeks before Chacon. Her murder also remains unsolved.

"We are still pushing for Rosa Chacon," Enriquez said.

Cook County Crime Stoppers are now offering a new $1,000 reward in Chacon's case. The group will be handing out flyers and talking to people in the Little Village community this weekend, hoping for information leading to the indictment or arrest of the person behind Chacon's murder.

"Something might trigger, and somebody has videos, or somebody saw something," Enriquez said. "Even two years later."

 

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Well PUSH HARDER.