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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Sun-Times Wire

Man killed in drive-by shooting in Back of the Yards

(Sun-Times file)

An 18-year-old man was killed in a drive-by shooting Thursday night in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.

Fernando Vega-Diaz was walking in the 4700 block of South Ashland Avenue about 9:05 p.m. when someone in a passing vehicle opened fire, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

He was shot in the chest and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

No arrests were made. 

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