A man has died from a head wound suffered in a shooting early Christmas Day in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, authorities said.
Franklin Carlos Aguilar, 39, was pronounced dead at 5:27 a.m. Wednesday at Stroger Hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Aguilar died from complications from a gunshot wound to the head, the office found following an autopsy Thursday.
Aguilar was shot about 2:40 a.m. Dec. 25 in the 4700 block of South Loomis Boulevard, when he was in a car with another man, according to police.
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Aguilar was hit in the head and initially taken in “grave condition” to Stroger Hospital, police said at the time. A 20-year-old man was grazed in the back and refused medical treatment, Officer Ron Gaines, a Chicago police spokesman, said at the time.
The two men were in a car, stopped at a traffic light, when someone in a dark-colored vehicle pulled up beside them, and someone inside began firing, hitting the two men, police said. The attackers then fled.