70-year sentence for man who killed sleeping 6-year-old - chicagotribune.com: "sentenced Mark A. Downs almost a year after a jury found him guilty of murdering Nicholas 'Nico' Contreras during a botched gang-retaliation shooting.
The crime shocked Aurora residents and produced a wave of anti-gang sentiment.
Downs, 33, was already serving time for a 2004 gang-related shooting when former gang members implicated him in Contreras' death. Witnesses at his trial said that on Nov. 10, 1996, Downs fired through a bedroom window into the home of the child's grandparents, thinking the boy's uncle, a gang rival, would be there.
The uncle, no longer lived at the house.
Instead, two of the shots hit the sleeping child."
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