Stray bullet kills man in Marquette Park

The man was sitting in his car Tuesday night in the 2900 block of Redfield Drive when he was shot, police said.

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A 49-year-old man was killed by a stray bullet Tuesday night in Marquette Park.

Raul Cabrara was sitting in a car in the 2900 block of Redfield Drive when shots were fired from a nearby disturbance, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

He was struck in his head and taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

No one was in custody.

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