{"id":102341,"date":"2026-01-16T16:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102341\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:01:09","slug":"suspect-in-fatal-shooting-of-cicero-high-school-student-arrested-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102341\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in fatal shooting of Cicero high school student arrested in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teen is being held on charges after a 17-year-old\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/cicero-shooting-teen-killed-morton-east-high-school\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was shot and killed<\/a>\u00a0leaving school on January 8 in west suburban Cicero, Illinois.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cicero officials said a 17-year-old was arrested in New York on Thursday after a police investigation. According to a Cicero spokesperson, the suspect is now awaiting extradition back to Illinois and is being held on an arrest warrant for first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm charges.\u00a0 \u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, detectives discovered the suspect purchased an Amtrak train ticket to leave New York and return to Chicago. Detectives then coordinated with Amtrak police to take him into custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear how the suspect got to New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim, identified as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/cicero-shooting-bulling-morton-east-high-school-johan-adaree-sanchez\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Johan Adaree-Sanchez<\/a>, was shot in the chest around 3:20 p.m. in the 2100 block of 59th Avenue, a few blocks away from Morton East High School. He was taken to the hospital, where he later died.  <\/p>\n<p>Investigators confirmed a large fight between &#8220;two rival groups of teenagers&#8221; led to the fatal shooting. Cicero officials said the suspect, who was not a student at Morton East High School, ran from the scene and disposed of a firearm in a nearby yard, which has since been recovered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teen is being held on charges after a 17-year-old\u00a0was shot and killed\u00a0leaving school on January 8 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8287,12259,9,11,10,1096],"class_list":["post-102341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-chicago","tag-cicero","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}