Hommy Vega fatally shot while sitting in vehicle in West Garfield Park


Hommy Vega was fatally shot Friday afternoon in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.

The 36-year-old Vega was sitting in a vehicle about 1:20 p.m. in the 0-100 block of North Hamlin Boulevard when someone fired shots, hitting him in the right side of the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Vega, of the 1300 block of West Chicago Avenue, was transported to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:58 p.m., authorities said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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