CHICAGO -- A 26-year-old man was gunned down in the street near Wrigley Field after watching the Cubs play on Thursday.
Frank Hernandez was shot about 90 minutes after the Cubs beat the Diamondbacks 11-3.
Authorities say the incident started when Hernandez was cut off
by two men in a SUV as he was crossing an
intersection near Wrigley at about 6 p.m.
Police say Hernandez hit the SUV with a miniature baseball bat
and then broke the souvenir over the driver's head when the driver
got out of the vehicle. Police say that's when the SUV's
passenger got out and shot Hernandez in the upper abdomen.
Hernandez collapsed on the sidewalk. Paramedics performed CPR, but Hernandez was later pronounced dead at Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
"He went to the Cubs game, and he was just waiting, got out and right there he got shot," a friend of the Hernandez family told the Chicago Sun-Times as he sat crying outside the hospital emergency room. "He told me, 'I'm gonna see the Cubs today. I'll go and see my buddies.'"
According to the Sun-Times, two Chicago police officers who were parked in a squad car half a block away saw the fight break out and were watching in their rear-view mirror as Hernandez was shot.
Witnesses told the newspaper that police took several men into custody almost immediately.
Hernandez had attended the game with best friend Brad Wallace Jr.
"From what I've heard, they were crossing the street," Margaret Wallace, Brad's mother, told the Sun-Times. "There was a fight behind them. My son got to the curb and turned around. He heard two pops and went to talk to Frankie, and he was on the ground."
Chicago police sergeant Robert Cargie says two men remain in custody in connection with
the shooting but no charges have been filed.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.