Faustino Alamo Dominguez, left, and his son, Luis Angel Alamo, were gunned down outside their Chicago jewelry store, Joyeria Angelo’s, following an armed robbery Saturday night.
Editor’s note: This story was updated post-publication to include a statement from Jewelers’ Security Alliance President Jennifer Mulvihill.
Chicago—A father and son who owned a jewelry store in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood were shot to death over the weekend following an armed robbery at their store.
According to Cook County Crime Stoppers, the crime happened at about 6 p.m. on Saturday at a business, Joyeria Angelo’s, near 26th Street and Springfield Avenue.
A man wearing a Chicago Blackhawks hoodie and what looks like a Blackhawks jersey entered the store, brandished a gun and demanded merchandise before quickly exiting with the stolen items.
Surveillance video from a nearby business shared with ABC 7 in Chicago shows one man follow the suspect out into the middle of the street, fight with him and then pursue him down the street.
Another man emerges from the business and runs after them both.
When they reached the corner of Springfield Avenue, the suspect pulled out a gun and shot both men, identified by officials as 63-year-old Faustino Alamo Dominguez and 25-year-old Luis Angel Alamo, both of the Chicago suburb of Berwyn.
The suspect then fled the scene in a white Maserati SUV, heading south on Springfield, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Images provided by the Jewelers’ Security Alliance show, at left, the individual responsible for shooting the owners of Joyeria Angelo’s on Saturday night in Chicago.
In a statement emailed to National Jeweler on Wednesday, Jewelers’ Security Alliance President Jennifer Mulvihill said, “On behalf of the Jewelers’ Security Alliance, I extend our deepest condolences to the families, friends, and colleagues of the victims whose lives were cut short in a senseless act of violence.”
JSA Executive Vice President Scott Guginsky said these are the first two industry homicides of 2025.
He also noted that in the past decade, the industry has had only one other homicide involving multiple victims, the December 2016 murders of 81-year-old Bill Mosley, owner of Bill’s Pawn Jewelry Coin/Stamp Exchange in Jackson, Mississippi, and his two employees, 60-year-old Robert Ivy and 70-year-old Ted McLemore.
“This is very unusual that two jewelers are killed at the same time,” Guginsky said.
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JSA is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for murdering the “beloved” Chicago jewelers.
It is asking any jewelry store owners or employees who encountered individuals acting suspiciously or came into contact with the above-pictured individual in recent days to call the JSA reward hotline at 212-687-0328 or email tips to jsa2@jewelerssecurity.org.
