Ireal Mitchell shot to death in West Garfield Park drive-by

Ireal C. Mitchell was fatally shot Monday evening in a drive-by in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.

The 22-year-old Mitchell was in the 800 block of South Springfield at 7:22 p.m. when someone in a gray vehicle shot him multiple times, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Mitchell, of the 4000 block of West 5th Avenue, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:03 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

An autopsy found he died of gunshot wounds to the torso and right upper arm, and his death was ruled a homicide.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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