A Wisconsin gunman accused of shooting two victims at a Waukegan funeral home on Friday had just completed probation for another gun charge he received for threatening a victim with a gun in a bakery in 2023, records show.
Lake County Circuit Court Judge Michael Nerheim ordered Salvador Garibay-Sanchez, 31, of Racine, Wisc., held in Lake County Jail pending trial during a detention hearing Monday afternoon.
Garibay-Sanchez is charged by the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office with one Class X felony count of attempted murder due to the shooting at the Memorial Chapel Funeral Home in the 1500 block of Washington Street in Waukegan on Friday night.
Garibay-Sanchez is also facing two Class X felony counts of Aggravated Battery Involving a Firearm.
Assistant Lake County States Attorney Nicholas Ghezavat said in court Sunday that Waukegan Police were called to the funeral home for a report of shots fired at about 9:21 p.m. Friday.
On location, police discovered a victim suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, Ghezavat said. That person was transported to a nearby hospital.
A second victim was injured in the shooting, Ghezevat said, but that individual self-transported from the funeral home to the hospital.
The second victim was treated and released shortly after, authorities said.
Ghezevat said multiple witnesses saw a person identified as Garibay-Sanchez enter a funeral home carrying a handgun and open fire at the first victim. He said the second victim was hit by a stray bullet intended for the first victim.
Ghezevat said surveillance video obtained from the funeral home showed a white truck pulling up to the funeral home and Garibay-Sanchez exiting the vehicle with a handgun.
The video also shows Garibay-Sanchez carrying the handgun into a room where the first victim was located, Ghezevat said, then leaving the funeral home in the vehicle shortly after.
Police issued an alert for the vehicle. That vehicle was spotted by the Lake Forest Police, where Garibay-Sanchez was taken into custody.
Garibay-Sanchez was wearing the same clothing the gunman was wearing in the surveillance video, Ghezevat said, and also made spontaneous statements taking responsibility for the shooting.
He told police he got into an argument with the victim over money, left the funeral home, drove to his house where he picked up the weapon, then drove back to the funeral home where he shot the victims.
Friday’s shooting took place nearly three months after Garibay-Sanchez completed probation after pleading guilty to holding a gun to a victim’s head at a bakery in Waukegan in 2023, authorities said.
In the previous case, Garibay-Sanchez walked into the bakery armed with a gun on Nov. 13, 2023, and pointed it unprovoked at a person’s head before ordering them to the ground.
Garibay-Sanchez was 29 and lived in Waukegan at the time of the first arrest, court records show.
Prosecutors in the first case said surveillance video showed Garibay-Sanchez pacing around while holding a gun after walking into the bakery.
When a customer entered the store, Garibay-Sanchez used both hands to point his gun at the victim’s head and told the victim to get down on the ground.
Garibay-Sanchez and the victim did not know each other, authorities said, and there was no argument leading up to the incident.
When arrested, officers found the loaded revolver in Garibay-Sanchez’s pocket, authorities said.
Court records show Garibay-Sanchez pleaded guilty in the first case to a Class 4 felony count of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon without a FOID card in January of 2024.
He was sentenced to probation and ordered to perform 100 hours of public service, court records show.
That probation ended in November 2025.
Before ordering Garibay-Sanchez held pending trial, Nerheim said it appeared Garibay-Sanchez was a “clear and present danger to society” and that the Friday night shooting seemed premeditated because Garibay-Sanchez left the funeral home to retrieve a weapon from his house.