Gang Member Charged in Fatal Shooting of Suburban Man Near Chicago's Millennium Park: Police

A gang member and convicted gun offender has been charged in the fatal shooting of a suburban Chicago man near Millennium Park over the weekend, police said. 

Thirty-two-year-old Paul Pagan was charged Monday afternoon in the murder of of Peter Fabbri, police announced.

Family members said Fabbri was in the city attending a wine tasting with his sister and girlfriend when he "was the victim of another act of gun violence."

The 54-year-old Berwyn man was shot around 7:30 p.m. Saturday while walking with two women near the intersection of East Monroe Street and South Michigan Avenue, authorities said.

There, he got into a verbal altercation with another man and when the altercation turned physical, the man pulled out a handgun and shot Fabbri in the head before fleeing on a bicycle, according to the Chicago Police Department. 

Fabbri was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition, but family members said in a GoFundMe page set up to raise money for his cremation he was taken off life support Sunday night. 

He died just before 6 p.m. Sunday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. 

"As of yesterday my uncle was brain dead and was technically alive only due to the life support," an update on the page read. "It is with a broken heart and tears in our eyes and down our faces that he has been taken off of life support and has officially been welcomed into the gates of heaven."

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