The security guard fired the shot during a fight at the nightclub, police confirmed, killing 21-year-old Zulma Daniela Calderon Pacheco, who had been dancing with her boyfriend. The victim’s family confirmed her identity to WGN News.
Calderon Pacheco, affectionately known to her loved ones as Dani, turned 21 in January and was the oldest of five children.
The Stone Park Police Department released a statement on the shooting Monday morning, saying a fight broke out at the nightclub just after 1:30 a.m. Saturday. During the fight, police say, a security guard pulled out a gun and fired once, striking and killing a 21-year-old woman from Chicago, identified by family as Calderon Pacheco.
Police say the suspect was taken into custody a few hours later, and detectives from the Stone Park Police Department and the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office reviewed the case. However, the suspect was released Sunday night, police say, “pending further investigation.”
A law enforcement expert told WGN the detectives are looking at several factors in the guard’s actions to determine possible charges, including his authority to use a weapon, if he saw other weapons before firing the shot and if he feared for his life or the lives of others.
No charges have been filed yet, and the incident remains under investigation by the Stone Park Police Department, the West Suburban Major Crimes Takes Force and the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office.
Calderon Pacheco’s loved ones, meanwhile, are left devastated by her death. A GoFundMe has been set up for Dani’s family.
“I called my mom and then I heard her crying, and she told me that Dani died, and I was crying also,” Dani’s 7-year-old brother Engember Ochoa said. “He accidentally shot the wrong person, and now he shot my sister.”
Dani had gone to Mansion Live Nightclub in Stone Park on Friday night with Joel Chimborazo, her boyfriend of five years.
“She was like, I guess, the love of my life,” Chimborazo said.
While they were dancing, a fight broke out behind them and a gun was fired.
“When I heard the gunshot, I dropped and she drops, too, and I was scared, because I thought that bullet went that way or something. I go down and reach for her. She feels heavier than usual, because I’m trying to pick her up, and her hair was just in her face, covering her face,” Chimborazo recalled. “I saw blood coming out, but I was just too scared. I was scared that it was just going to be in her face.
“I just didn’t want to see a bullet in her face, if I’m being honest. So I don’t know where she got shot.”
Chimborazo and his friends carried Dani outside, but it was too late.
The family said they will get justice for Dani, but for now they’re focused on honoring her memory.
“I love her, and I know she’s going to be watching on top of us,” Chimborazo said.
Additionally, Mansion Live posted a statement on its social media feeds Saturday morning acknowledging “the incident that took place at Mansion Live last night.”
That statement also said the club was closed Saturday night “in honor of our community and to allow space for healing.”
Another deadly shooting happened outside Mansion Live Nightclub in 2020, which led to a suspect being shot by police.
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