Brandon Phipps dies 8 days after being shot while sitting in vehicle two blocks from his home in Lawndale

On the morning of May 19, Brandon Phipps was sitting in a vehicle a couple of blocks from his home in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood when someone started shooting.

The 30-year-old was struck in the left side and was taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died just over a week later.

Phipps was sitting in a vehicle about 9:15 a.m. May 19 in the 3100 block of West 13th when someone got out of another vehicle and fired shots, striking him in his left side, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Phipps was taken to Mount Sinai, where he died Saturday at 5:18 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

An autopsy Monday found he died of multiple gunshot wounds, the medical examiner’s office said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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