Malek Taylor dies two days after being shot in Chatham drive-by


Malek Taylor died Friday, two days after he was shot in the head in a drive-by in the South Side Chatham neighborhood.

Taylor, 31, was outside in the 8700 block of South Wabash about 7:20 p.m. Wednesday when a vehicle pulled up and someone inside shot him in the head, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The vehicle then drove off southbound on Wabash.

Taylor, of the 9500 block of South Forest Avenue, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 2:01 p.m. Friday, according to the medical examiner’s office.

— Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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