Man shot to death while driving on Lake Shore Drive

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Authorities investigate a fatal shooting in the 2300 block of North Lake Shore Drive. | Network Video Productions

SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE - A man was shot to death early Wednesday while driving on Lake Shore Drive in the North Side Lincoln Park neighborhood.

Jorge Navarro Jr., 25, was driving a Lexus south about 3:45 a.m. in the 2300 block of North Lake Shore Drive when another vehicle pulled alongside his and someone inside shot him in the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

His Lexus then crashed into the center median. Two other people, a male and female who were also in the Lexus, were not injured.

Navarro Jr. was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 4:37 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the McKinley Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds, and his death was ruled a homicide.