North Lawndale shooting leaves motorist dead

Police are looking for the gunman who opened fire and fatally shot a man driving a car late Thursday in North Lawndale.

Around 11:40 p.m., Tyrone Booker, 35, was in the 1200 block of South Sawyer Avenue when someone on foot opened fire and struck him in the head and torso, officials said.

While trying to flee Booker crashed into two parked vehicles.

Booker, who lived in the 1200 block of South Sawyer Avenue, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 12:09 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The gunman was not arrested.

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