A man was killed and three others were critically wounded when someone in a passing car opened fire at their van on Lake Shore Drive near the Fullerton exit late Thursday night, according to Chicago police.
The four were headed north in a Honda Odyssey van shortly before midnight when they were shot in the northbound lanes in the 2500 block of North Lake Shore Drive, police said. The driver of the van sped away to the Belmont exit and pulled over at a parking lot in the 3200 block of North Broadway, police said.
Michael Medina, 20, was shot several times in the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. An autopsy Friday determined Medina died of a gunshot wound to the torso, and his death was ruled a homicide.
Two other men, 20 and 26, were taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition. The younger man was shot in the left shoulder, and the other had gunshot wounds to the head and body, police said.
The fourth man, 22, was shot in the arm, chest and face, and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in the same condition, police said.
A police source said the shooting was possibly gang-related. No one has been arrested.
The shooting happened about four hours after two men were shot near the northbound I-94 ramp to southbound I-57, according to Illinois State Police.
Troopers responded to the shooting on the Far South Side about 7:35 p.m. and found a Nissan on its side.
One man was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn with a gunshot wound to the leg and was stabilized, a Chicago Fire Department spokesman said.
The other man went to Metro South Medical Center in Blue Island, state police said, and was being transported to Christ Medical Center. He was shot in his shoulder, left leg and grazed on the left side of his head, and was reported stable.
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