CHICAGO — Mack McClinton, 22, died Wednesday night, months after being shot in Garfield Park.
At 8:08 p.m. Jan. 31, the man and a 17-year-old were walking in an alley near the 300 block of South California Avenue when someone in a dark-colored car fired shots at them, police said.
The 22-year-old was hit in his neck and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition, police said.
McClinton, of the 2800 block of West Adams Street, was pronounced dead at 10:06 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. An autopsy showed he died from complications of a gunshot wound in his neck in a homicide.
McClinton's friends hosted a candlelight vigil for him afterward, spelling out "RIP Mack" in candles.
"It's so crazy how you was just here. Now you gone," one person wrote on Facebook after McClinton's death. "You was like a comedian ... putting smiles on people face. ... You made the world go round."
