On the night of July 5, 2025, Moises Juarez, 47, a man from Chicago, was walking in Little Village near 27th Street and South Central Park Avenue when a black Nissan circled the block several times and pulled alongside. From the driver's seat, the man inside called out “Yo,” then fired, striking Moises Juarez, 47, in the abdomen. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died. The shooting happened around 10:10 p.m.
in the 2600 block of South Central Park Avenue, a detail that anchored the case as detectives began to stitch together witness statements and footage from police surveillance cameras in the neighborhood.
Within days, police arrested 20-year-old Daniel Alvarado, who lived in the same area. Prosecutors said witnesses described the shooter, and surveillance video helped identify Alvarado and the Nissan, which was registered to a parent of one of his passengers that night. According to a courtroom account, one passenger initially claimed responsibility before recanting and telling detectives that Alvarado acted alone; a second passenger, a woman, also said he acted alone. Shell casings recovered in Alvarado's home matched casings at the scene and on the Nissan's windshield, further tightening the chain of evidence leading to his arrest.
In court, prosecutors described the attack on Moises Juarez, 47, as “completely unprovoked.” They argued that Alvarado—identified as an avowed member of the Two-Six street gang—had been driving around Little Village “looking for someone to shoot.” A judge later ordered him detained, noting that evidence placed his GPS monitor near the crime scene and that a video recovered from his phone allegedly showed him handling a gun in the Nissan less than two hours before the killing of Moises Juarez, 47.
The monitoring itself became a flashpoint. Records presented in court showed Alvarado had been on electronic home monitoring in a separate gun case that spring, over the objections of prosecutors. Officials reported at least eight violations of his curfew in the weeks leading up to the homicide, including a two-hour gap in GPS data from 8:09 p.m. to 10:11 p.m. on July 5—the precise window when Moises Juarez, 47, was shot. Coverage that followed underscored how he remained on an ankle monitor even as, prosecutors say, he committed a fatal drive-by in Little Village.
Public records and memorial trackers listed the case as a fatal shooting in Little Village on July 5, 2025, naming Moises Juarez, 47, and situating his death on the city's Southwest Side. Those entries echoed the core facts that would appear in charging and courtroom narratives: the time and place, the single fatal wound to his abdomen, and the swift filing of a first-degree murder charge.
As of the initial court hearings in July 2025, police announced an arrest and prosecutors charged Daniel Alvarado with first-degree murder in the killing of Moises Juarez, 47. He was ordered held in custody while the case proceeded, with the court setting the next hearing date on the murder charge for later that month. No other suspects were charged alongside him, and the passenger accounts placed the gun in the driver's hand.
