Francisco Zamora Rodriguez was shot on the evening of March 31, 2021, in the 6000 block of South Artesian Avenue in Chicago's Chicago Lawn/Marquette Park neighborhood. According to police and local reporting, he was near a backyard when someone approached and fired, striking him in the head; he was rushed to Stroger Hospital in critical condition and died the next day, April 1. He was a Hispanic/Latino male, 42.
In the days that followed, detectives identified a neighbor, Luis Pedrote-Salinas, as the suspect. Prosecutors said forensic testing matched a shell casing recovered by Zamora Rodriguez's body to a gun found on Pedrote-Salinas, and he was charged with first-degree murder along with weapons and related counts; a judge ordered him held without bail. Spanish-language and local outlets likewise reported that Pedrote-Salinas was taken into custody in connection with the shooting.
Early accounts noted no arrests had been announced immediately after the attack, but subsequent court coverage confirmed the charging of Pedrote-Salinas in Zamora Rodriguez's killing. Public memorial and obituary pages record Zamora Rodriguez's age and date of death and place his death on April 1, 2021, following the March 31 shooting.
