The man suspected of hiring a hitman to kill a Beach Park resident blamed the victim for the killings of the man’s brother and nephew on a farm in Mexico, Lake County prosecutors said in new court filings.

The revelations were among those detailed Thursday in a court hearing where a judge ordered Francisco Gutierrez-Vasquez, 43, of North Chicago, to be held in jail.

Gutierrez-Vasquez, authorities say, is suspected of hiring a soccer friend to kill Oscar Ochoa-Tello, 46, on Nov. 5. Ochoa-Tello was shot multiple times at 5:45 a.m. that day as he warmed up his car outside his Beach Park home.

Ochoa-Tello’s son heard the gunshots and drove his father to the hospital. He died three days later in the intensive care unit.

Police arrested Cristian Ruvalcava-Torres of Wisconsin, who is charged

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