19-year-old Salvador Muniz fatally shot while driving in Brighton Park

Salvador “Chava” Muniz died after he was shot multiple times while driving in the Brighton Park neighborhood early Sunday.

Muniz, 19, was driving a vehicle north in the 3900 block of South Campbell at 2:35 a.m. when someone inside another vehicle driving south began shooting at him, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was struck by multiple bullets before the vehicle with the shooter drove away west.

Muniz, of the 4300 block of West Washtenaw, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 3:12 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

A GoFundMe page has been set up to help the family.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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