Man shot to death in Brighton Park identified as 26-year-old Victor Fernando Garcia

A man who was shot to death early Monday in the Southwest Side Brighton Park neighborhood has been identified as Victor Fernando Garcia.

Officers responding at 3:40 a.m. to a call of a person shot found the 26-year-old lying on the sidewalk in the 2500 block of West 47th Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Garcia had suffered gunshot wounds to the left shoulder and right leg, and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:32 a.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 4800 block of South Winchester.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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