Man killed in Washington Heights drive-by shooting

The 34-year-old suffered two gunshot wounds to the chest and one to each arm, police said.

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Red crime scene tape is seen lit up from a car’s headlights.

A man was fatally shot early Saturday in Washington Heights.

Sun-Times file

A man has died after a drive-by shooting early Saturday in the Washington Heights neighborhood on the South Side.

Allan Howard, 34, was standing on the street in the 8900 block of South Carpenter when someone in a car fired multiple shots just after 2 a.m., according to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Howard suffered two gunshot wounds to the chest and one to each arm, officials said. He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died.

No one was in custody.

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