19-year-old Bryan Cooley fatally shot in drive-by in Austin

Bryan Coole,y known to friends as Fat Shorty, was shot to death Friday afternoon in the Austin neighborhood.

Cooley, 19, was a passenger in a vehicle about 3 p.m. in the 600 block of South Cicero when another vehicle approached, and someone inside opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The driver took Cooley to Loretto Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:22 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the 5200 block of West Quincy.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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