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Alejandro “Jano” Fuentes who appeared on the Mexican version of The Voice shot dead less than a week after Christina Grimmie was killed in Orlando

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h3 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;header"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;360606&semi;"><strong>Second alumni of talent show &&num;8216&semi;The Voice&&num;8217&semi; shot in less than a week<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;header"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;360606&semi;"><strong>Alejandro &&num;8220&semi;Jano&&num;8221&semi; Fuentes&comma; 45&comma;  shot three times in the head in Chicago&comma;  Thursday and died in hospital Saturday<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;header"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;360606&semi;"><strong>Singer who gained fame appering on Mexican Version of The Voice was shot dead less than a week after Christina Grimmie was<span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;360606&semi;"> killed<&sol;span> in similar manner by a gunman<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;header"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;360606&semi;"><strong>Fuentes was sitting in his car after celebrating his 45th birthday with friends &comma; gunman walks up&comma; shows him a gun&comma; demands he get out<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;header"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;360606&semi;"><strong>When he wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t get out&comma;  gunman fires multiple shots&comma; hitting him in the head&comma; rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital and pronounced dead hours later<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;header"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;360606&semi;"><strong>No suspects yet&comma; in the case<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"col sun-col-4"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-37245" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;alejandro-e2809cjanoe2809d-fuentes10&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Alejandro &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Jano” Fuentes10&period;jpg" width&equals;"637" height&equals;"358" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Alejandro &&num;8220&semi;Jano&&num;8221&semi; Fuentes from  the Mexican version of &&num;8216&semi;The Voice&&num;8217&semi;  was shot just after celebrating his birthday<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"col sun-col-4">&NewLine;<p>A &grave;SINGER who appeared on the Mexican version of The Voice has been shot dead – just days after Christiana Grimme&comma; another astar on the show was killed in the same way&period;  Alejandro &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Jano” Fuentes died yesterday in an ambush while celebrating his birthday with friends&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The singer who earned a major following after participating in the Mexican version of &&num;8220&semi;The Voice&&num;8221&semi; died Saturday after being shot Thursday in a vehicle in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side&comma; officials said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Alejandro &&num;8220&semi;Jano&&num;8221&semi; Fuentes was in a car in the 4300 block of South Archer Avenue after celebrating his 45th birthday with friends and colleagues when someone walked up&comma; showed him a gun and told him to get out&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;When he wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t get out of the car&comma; the gunman fired multiple shots&comma; hitting him in the head&period; Fuentes was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition and was pronounced dead there at 2&colon;07 p&period;m&period;&comma; according to the Cook County medical examiner&&num;8217&semi;s office&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<article class&equals;"article"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-37269" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;alejandro-e2809cjanoe2809d-fuentes14&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Alejandro &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Jano” Fuentes14&period;jpg" width&equals;"1350" height&equals;"759" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong>A community united in grief lend support to each other<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;content"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-37253" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;alejandro-e2809cjanoe2809d-fuentes8&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Alejandro &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Jano” Fuentes8&period;jpg" width&equals;"1350" height&equals;"759" &sol;><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Mourners pray outside Tras Bambalinas music school&comma;  during a memorial&comma; Saturday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<article class&equals;"article">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;media-img-container open-gallery">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;credit"><img class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;credit" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;alejandro-jano-fuentes7&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Alejandro &quot&semi;Jano&quot&semi; Fuentes7&period;jpg" width&equals;"1314" height&equals;"740" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;media"><strong>Shocked fans gather at the scene where Alejandro was shot dead while celebrating his birthday on Thursday<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Fuentes got into his car with friends when an armed man suddenly ordered Fuentes out and shot him&comma; police said<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"col sun-col-4"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-37370" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;alejandro-jano-fuentes141&period;png" alt&equals;"Alejandro &quot&semi;Jano&quot&semi; Fuentes14&period;png" width&equals;"811" height&equals;"416" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Police seal off the crime scene in Chicago where Alejandro Fuentes was killed while sitting in his car&period; Police reports say Jano was shot three times in the head&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4>The 45-year-old&comma; from Chicago&comma; US&comma; was shot three times in the head late Thursday outside his Tras Bambalinas School on Chicago’s South West side&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It comes just days after Christina Grimmie&comma; who appeared on the US version of the show&comma; was killed&period;  Authorities say a man shot her while she was signing autographs after a performance in Orlando&comma; Florida&period; The man then killed himself&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Fuentes got into his car with friends and an armed man suddenly ordered Fuentes out of that vehicle and shot him&period;<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;media-img-container open-gallery"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"col sun-col-4">&NewLine;<article class&equals;"article">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;content">&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-37258" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;alejandro-jano-fuentes4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Alejandro &quot&semi;Jano&quot&semi; Fuentes4&period;jpg" width&equals;"960" height&equals;"540" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;media">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;media-img-container open-gallery"><strong>The crowd of fans gather in tears following the tragic news<&sol;strong><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"sun-row"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-37273" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;alejandro-e2809cjanoe2809d-fuentes15&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Alejandro &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Jano” Fuentes15&period;jpg" width&equals;"750" height&equals;"750" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Alejandro Fuentes died on Saturday&comma; the day after the funeral of Christina Grimmie&comma; who appeared on the US version of the same show<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-37278" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;christine-grimmie16&period;jpg" alt&equals;"christine grimmie16&period;jpg" width&equals;"1024" height&equals;"759" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><strong>Christina Grimmie was the first of the Voice alumni to be killed&period; She was shot dead last weekend<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"sun-row">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"col sun-col-4">&NewLine;<article class&equals;"article">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;content">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;media">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;media-img-container open-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;credit"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-37262" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;alejandro-jano-fuentes3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"NINTCHDBPICT000245887583" width&equals;"798" height&equals;"561" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;credit"><strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;The Performer&&num;8217&semi;s music students comforting each other during the memorial <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;figure>&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;media">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;credit"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-37266" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;alejandro-e2809cjanoe2809d-fuentes13&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Alejandro &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Jano” Fuentes13&period;jpg" width&equals;"1350" height&equals;"759" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;media-img-container open-gallery"><strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;Family and friends mourn Fuentes<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>WGN television said police were investigating whether the shooting was an attempted carjacking or a robbery&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Friends of Fuentes in Chicago said they were holding a vigil and memorial for the singer at his studio in Chicago on Saturday evening&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Fuentes gained fame in his native Mexico after participating in the Mexican version of &&num;8220&semi;The Voice&&num;8221&semi; in 2011&period; He opened a performing arts studio in Brighton Park called Tras Bambalinas&comma; Spanish for Backstage&comma; which taught young people singing&comma; dancing&comma; acting and modeling&period; He was shot on the same block as the studio&comma; which also served as his home&comma; according to records&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Since opening Tras Bambalinas&comma; Fuentes has been a regular at Mexican-American cultural events&comma; staging elaborate costumed musicals as he taught youngsters the fundamentals of performing arts and entertaining&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;media">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;media-img-container open-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;credit"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-37280" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;alejandro-e2809cjanoe2809d-fuentes12&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Alejandro &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Jano” Fuentes12&period;jpg" width&equals;"700" height&equals;"393" &sol;><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;credit"><strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;The youngsters wept openly outside Tras Bambalinas music school&comma; during a memorial for Fuentes&comma; Saturda<&sol;strong>y<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;figure>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article&lowbar;&lowbar;gallery-count theme&lowbar;&lowbar;background-color-rgba-80">&&num;8220&semi;The world doesn&&num;8217&semi;t know how big of a loss that this is right now&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Victor Gulley&comma; co-founder of A Taste of Theater&comma; a Pilsen-based community theater organization that helped Fuentes&&num;8217&semi; group stage a musical last year&period; &&num;8220&semi;To have someone of his caliber gone — and I have no idea why&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Gulley said he learned of Fuentes&&num;8217&semi; shooting Friday morning on Facebook and spent much of the day struggling to understand how a man as supremely talented as Fuentes could earn such a fate&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;He was one of the most talented people I have ever known&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Gulley said&period; &&num;8220&semi;He could sing&comma; he could dance&comma; he could write the music&comma; perform it and most importantly he could teach it&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ve never ever met anyone as talented as he was in those arenas&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Along with singing&comma; he was a talented songwriter who loved writing musicals and setting choreography to accompany his music and imparted it to others&period; He had a hand in his entire creations&comma; Gulley said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;He could do it all&period; He even did makeup&comma; which was amazing&period; He did the hair and makeup for all of the people in the production&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He compared Fuentes to the singer Prince&comma; who also was renowned for taking part in every aspect of his art&period; But Gulley said Fuentes took it one step further&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I mean Prince is a modern-future virtuoso&semi; so he could write and perform the music and all that stuff&period; But I don&&num;8217&semi;t think he ever did hair and makeup for the whole band&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Gulley laughed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Fuentes had also begun teaching art to students at Daley Elementary School in the Back of the Yards neighborhood&comma; Gulley added&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Fuentes &&num;8220&semi;just floored the kids&period; They&&num;8217&semi;ve been demanding that he come back and unfortunately I had to deliver the news that he might not ever come back&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Gulley saidNo suspects … police are yet to catch the person responsible for the killing<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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