Maurice "Dirty Reese" Purnell was killed in a drive-by shooting Saturday evening in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
The 28-year-old Purnell was standing outside about 5 p.m. in the 1200 block of North Laramie when someone fired shots from a passing vehicle, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Purnell was shot in the upper chest and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. He he was pronounced dead there less than an hour later at 5:53 p.m., authorities said.
He lived several blocks away in the same neighborhood as the shooting.
--Chicago Sun-Times Wire