Police: 19-year-old man killed in Humboldt Park shooting

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A man was killed in a shooting Sunday evening in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side.

Isaiah Erasmo Sanchez, 19, was a passenger in a vehicle about 7:15 p.m. traveling in the 800 block of North Sacramento when someone fired shots from a vehicle that was following, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Sanchez suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was taken to Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 8:33 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

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