Crime News Chicago

Man killed in Avondale shooting

Jose Jalapa, 25, was driving a car around 12:30 a.m. in the 2900 block of West Diversey Avenue when someone in a white Jeep shot him, police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

A man was shot driving a car Sept. 17, 2022 on the Northwest Side. — A man was shot while driving a car Sept. 17, 2022 on the Northwest Side.

A man was fatally shot early Saturday near Avondale on the Northwest Side.

The man, 25, was driving a car around 12:30 a.m. in the 2900 block of West Diversey Avenue when someone in a white Jeep shot him, according to Chicago Police.

The man drove to Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center with a gunshot wound in the back, police said. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.

He was identified as Jose Jalapa by the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

No one was in custody.

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