CHICAGO — A 21-year-old man died after being shot while driving on Lake Shore Drive downtown Sunday night, according to police.
The man was a passenger in a car driving southbound in the 600 block of South Lake Shore Drive at 10:40 p.m. Sunday when shots rang out from a dark-colored SUV, said Officer Jose Estrada, a Chicago Police spokesman.
He was struck in his lower back, Estrada said. The driver of the car abandoned the shooting victim in the first block of East 35th Street, where emergency responders found the man, Estrada said.
The man was brought to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition before he was pronounced dead, Estrada said.
The man is a documented gang member, according to police. No arrests have been made.
The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office identified the man as George Morgan, of the 6200 block of North Richmond Street.
There have been eight shootings so far this year along Lake Shore Drive, up from two shootings over the same period last year on the Drive.
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