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Mexican Man Beaten to Death in Chicago While Putting Up Christmas Lights

by WARNER TODD HUSTON


A man who moved from Mexico to Chicago to give his family a better life was beaten to death outside his South Side home Saturday while putting up Christmas lights, according to reports.

Area One detectives say that Jose Tellez was attacked and beaten by two men around 6:30 p.m. in the 3500 block of West 58th Street in the Gage Park neighborhood, an area that is 90 percent Hispanic.

Tellez was rushed to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he died of his wounds at 10:32 p.m., the Cook County medical examiner’s office reported, according to Chicago’s Fox 32…


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