Man killed in Humboldt Park drive-by shooting

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1500 block of North Talman Avenue | Google Maps

A man was fatally wounded in a drive-by shooting Friday evening in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side, according to Chicago police.

About 8:31 p.m., someone in a passing dark-colored vehicle fired multiple shots at 20-year-old Antonio Gil in the 1500 block of North Talman Avenue, police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said.

Gil was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said. He lived in the Logan Square neighborhood.

Area North detectives were investigating the shooting as a homicide.

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