Driver Killed In Southeast Side Shootout Between Group In Car, Group On Porch

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A 26-year-old man is dead, after police said he was part of a group that fired shots from a car on the Southeast Side, at a group of men who fired back.

At 5:45 p.m. Sunday, the man was driving south in the 9700 block of South Avenue L with three other men, and the group in the car started shooting at another group of men on a porch.

That group fired back, and struck the 26-year-old man. He kept driving, but ended up crashing into a parked car, police said.

The man was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

A teenage boy was also taken to Advocate Trinity Hospital for a laceration.

Area Two detectives were questioning persons of interest Sunday evening.

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