Trial postponed for sister charged with supplying gun in teen girl's killing
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The trial of a woman accused of handing a loaded pistol to her teenage sister moments before 16-year-old Monica Herra was fatally shot was abruptly postponed Monday after her attorneys said they needed time to explore a late-arriving ballistics report. Catalina Aguilar, 21, was scheduled to go on trial Monday on federal weapons charges stemming from Herra's shocking slaying. Federal prosecutors say cellphone video taken on the day of Herra's slaying in April 2016 showed agitated Aguilar yelling outside the Back of the Yards home where a group of teens was preparing to settle a dispute over a boy that had boiled over on social media. Just off camera, Aguilar reached into her coat and handed a loaded gun to her 16-year-old sister, prosecutors said. "Shoot that bitch," Aguilar said according to prosecutors. It's the second criminal case Aguilar has faced stemming from the shooting.In 2016, Aguilar was charged in Cook County court with obstruction of justice and mob action, but Judge Stephen Walkee Jr. threw out the case after viewing the shaky cellphone video of the incident and concluding prosecutors had failed to meet their "minimal burden" to justify the charges. Earlier this year, a Cook County jury convicted Aguilar's cousin Donnell Florez of first-degree murder and attempted murder for supplying the revolver used in the shooting. He was sentenced in March to 100 years in prison.Meanwhile, the girl who allegedly opened fire, now 17, is awaiting trial on murder charges. The Tribune is not naming her because she is charged as a juvenile. Several of the teenagers who were involved in the fight are expected to testify at Aguilar' s trial that she was encouraging the violence, court records show. The cellphone video taken by one of the teens — which is expected to be played at Aguilar 's trial — shows her "yelling and animated" and "the only adult ... not attempting to break up or de-escalate" the situation, prosecutors wrote in a recent court filing. In a video-recorded interview with police hours after the killing, Aguilar, who had no previous criminal record, denied being at the scene. "I wasn't there until after the fight," Aguilar told detectives at a South Side police station, according to court records. "I don't know nothin' about no gunshot. I wasn't even fuckin' there. Why the fuck would I give her the fuckin' gun to shoot somebody, she's 16?" When detectives left the room, she began muttering to herself about others setting her up to take the fall for the gun, according to federal court records. "I ain't gonna let nobody put shit on me," said Aguilar, a mother of one who worked at Mercy Hospital, according to court records. "I'm not going down. I'm not going down for nobody. ... I ain't never had no case, and I ain't never gonna get one.
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