Carlos Hemphill Jr. dies 12 hours after being injured in drive-by shooting in Chatham

Carlos James Hemphill Jr. died Sunday morning, about 12 hours after he was shot in a drive-by in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side.

The 33-year-old Hemphill was standing in the 8100 block of South Harvard just after 10 p.m. Saturday when a vehicle drove by and someone inside shot him multiple times in the lower body, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Hemphill, of the 9100 block of South Claremont, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 10:26 a.m. Sunday, authorities said.

An autopsy showed he died of a gunshot wound to the pelvis, according to the medical examiner’s office.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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