Joel Planas dies five hours after being shot during fight with another man in Albany Park

Joel Planas died about 5 hours after being shot during a fight early Sunday in the Albany Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

Planas, 34, was involved in a fight with another male at 12:52 a.m. on a sidewalk in the 3100 block of West Irving Park Road, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The other man at some point pulled out a gun and fired shots, striking him in the abdomen, according to police.

Planas was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 5:59 a.m., police said. He lived in the 2100 block of North Stave Street.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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