Man fatally shot on Kennedy Expressway ramp on NW Side

Vilut Beniamin Gavrilas, 37, was traveling on the ramp about 8:55 p.m. from Division Street to I-90 when someone fired shots from another vehicle,

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A man was shot dead Jan. 30, 2021, on a ramp to I-90 on the Northwest Side.

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A 37-year-old man was killed in a shooting Saturday on a ramp to the Kennedy Expressway on the Northwest Side.

Vilut Beniamin Gavrilas was traveling on the ramp about 8:55 p.m. from Division Street to Interstate 90 when someone fired shots from another vehicle, according to Illinois State Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Gavrilas veered off the road, traveled up an embankment and crashed, state police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Autopsy results released Sunday found he died of multiple gunshot wounds and ruled his death a homicide, the medical examiner’s office said.

Illinois State Police are investigating.

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