Vaughn King Jr. was killed and another critically wounded in a shooting on the lakefront early Sunday in the Oakland neighborhood on the South Side.
Vaughn King Jr.
King, 21; and a 31-year-old man were sitting on the lakefront near 43rd Street about 3:15 a.m. when two gunmen walked up and started shooting, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
King, of the 1000 block of North Milwaukee Avenue, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:40 a.m., the medical examiner’s office said.
The older man was shot four times in the abdomen and once in the arm, and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition late Sunday.
King was a 2012 graduate of Curie High School, where he was a fullback and linebacker on the football team, and was also the city champion in the shot put in 2011, according to the Chicago Public League Sports Blog.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire