In the early hours of a Saturday morning, the parking lot of the Ford City Mall on Chicago's Southwest Side, typically a quiet expanse in the pre-dawn hours, was alive with the roar of engines and the screech of tires. A large group had gathered for an informal street-racing event, known as a "sideshow," where drivers performed stunts for the assembled crowd. Among the spectators was Martin Isaac Cantu Murillo, a 21-year-old man from South Bend, Indiana, who had traveled to Chicago. The atmosphe
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