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Edgar Romero, 38, Shot Dead By Man He'd Been Driving, Officials Say

CHICAGO — Edgar Romero, 38, was shot and killed by a man he had been driving early Monday in Gage Park, officials said.

At 1:45 a.m., the victim got out of his car in the 2700 block of West 51st Street and argued with two men who had been passengers in his car, police said. One of the men took out a gun and shot the driver.

The man was hit in his head and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition, police said. Romero, of the 2600 block of West 15th Street, was pronounced dead at 2:21 a.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.

The passengers got back into the car and drove away, police said. No one was in custody.