Fabian Ortega was shot to death early Christmas morning in the Gage Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
At 1:33 a.m., the 18-year-old Ortega was driving north in the 5300 block of South Francisco when shots rang out and he was struck in the neck and back, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Ortega, of the 3500 block of West 83rd Place, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:16 a.m., police and the medical examiner’s office said.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help the family with funeral expenses.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire