A man killed in a drive-by shooting Tuesday afternoon in the South Austin neighborhood on the West Side has been identified as 23-year-old west suburban resident Diamond Garner.
Garner was outside in the 400 block of South Kilpatrick about 4 p.m. Tuesday when a vehicle drove by and someone inside fired shots at him, Chicago Police said.
He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:38 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. An autopsy showed he died of a gunshot wound to the head.
Garner lived in the 1200 block of South 17th Avenue in Maywood, according to the medical examiner’s office.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire