Louis Carrasquillo, woman injured when gunman opens fire on their vehicle in Humboldt Park

Louis Carrasquillo was killed and a woman injured in a shooting in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on Friday night.

Police investigate the car after two people were shot Friday night in the 3300 block of West North Avenue. | NVP News

Police investigate the car after two people were shot Friday night in the 3300 block of West North Avenue. | NVP News


About 11:35 p.m., the 30-year-old Carrasquillo and a 26-year-old woman were driving east in the 3300 block of West North Avenue, authorities said. While they were stopped at a red light, another car pulled up next to them and a suspect shot them.

Carrasquillo was shot in the head, and the woman in the left leg, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Both were taken to Stroger Hospital, where Carrasquillo died at 12:02 a.m. Saturday, authorities said. He lived in the 4800 block of West Wellington.

The woman’s condition was stabilized, police said. No one was in custody for the shooting Monday morning.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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