A 28-year-old man was killed and another person wounded in a shooting late Friday on Chicago’s West Side, according to police.
The shooting occurred shortly after 11 p.m. in the 3800 block of West Monroe Street, in the Garfield Park neighborhood, according to police. Officers responded to a call of a person shot and found a victim unresponsive in the street with multiple gunshot wounds to the body.
The victim, identified by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as Jacquell Phillips, was transported to Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later, according to police.
Officers who were at the scene later went to Mt. Sinai where they discovered a second victim from the shooting, according to police. The 32-year-old man had been shot in the right arm and drove himself to the hospital, where he was in good condition, police said.
Area Four detectives are investigating.
Phillips, who would have turned 29 next week, had a lengthy criminal history stretching back to 2015, including convictions for theft, drug distribution, and handgun possession, court records show.
In a 2024 conviction for aggravated use of a firearm by a felon, police identified Phillips as a known member of the “Fat Shorty Gang” faction of the Four Corner Hustlers. He allegedly was seen on police surveillance cameras aiming a black handgun down the street before fleeing into a home, where the weapon was found in an oven, Cook County Criminal Court records show.
Phillips pleaded guilty in that case and was sentenced in March 2024 to three years in state prison, records show.
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