Jose Gomez shot to death while driving just a block from his home in East Side

Jose Gomez was shot and killed early Tuesday just a block from his home in the East Side neighborhood on the Far South Side.

Gomez, 28, was in his vehicle at 2:11 a.m. in the 9800 block of South Avenue H, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Friends told police the father of one had just left them and was heading home.

But another vehicle drove up and someone inside fired shots before driving away, according to police.

Gomez was shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:31 a.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office.

Friends said he lived just a block from where he was shot.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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