37-year old Cristobal Santana is in custody for allegedly shooting Illinois State Police Trooper Kody Green on Toronto Road Tuesday night. Santana is also the ex-boyfriend of a special education teacher who gunned down near her Chicago home. WMAQ-TV reports Santana had previously showed signs of violence against Adrianna Lopez, and she was shot when returning home with a male friend after going out to eat. Lopez died of multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Family members told reporters that Lopez and Santana broke up three months ago and had dated for about a year and a half.
State police and Chicago police did not provide details of the Chicago slaying, but relatives of Adrianna Lopez told WLS-TV and the Chicago Sun-Times that the suspect in the woman’s fatal shooting Sunday night had been arrested. Lopez, 37, was shot outside her home in Chicago’s Garfield Ridge neighborhood. Chicago police had said she was shot at least 10 times after being approached by a man she knew who was in a dark-colored SUV. Lopez taught special education at an elementary school in the neighborhood of Brighton Park.