Luciano Torres shot dead in Belmont Cragin community

Luciano Torres was shot to death in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood Saturday morning.

Torres, 28, was sitting in a double-parked SUV in the 4800 block of West Deming Place when a red SUV pulled up about 4:30 a.m. Saturday and someone inside opened fire, authorities said.

Torres, of the 2300 block of North Newland Avenue, was shot in the left side of the head and upper body, authorities said. He was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he died at 6:36 p.m. Saturday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Police said the red SUV then fled after the shooting.

Area North detectives are investigating.

— Sun-Times Media Wire

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