38-year-old Gregory McDaniels Jr. shot to death by two gunmen in LeClaire Courts

Gregory McDaniels Jr. was shot and killed Monday night in the LeClaire Courts neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

The 38-year-old McDaniels was on the sidewalk at 10:55 p.m. in the 4400 block of South Lawler, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Two people walked up to him and started shooting, police said.

McDaniels was shot in the chest, head and leg; and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:29 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the Vittum Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

McDaniels, a father of two, was a Corliss High graduate who also attended Olive-Harvey College and worked as a truck driver.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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