A Chicago man was shot to death while driving a van on the South Side early this morning.
Linton Goldsmith, 33, was driving in a van near the a van 8000 block of South Jeffrey Boulevard with five passengers. Around 1 a.m the driver of another car fired into the van and struck Goldsmith in the face. His van then crashed into a tree and rolled over onto a car.
None of his passengers were injured.
Police are investigating the shooting as a homicide, News Office Robert Perez said. It was originally reported by the Chicago Sun-Times that the man and the van matched the description of a suspect in a number of drive-by shootings perpetrated earlier Monday, but Officer Perez denied the report, saying he did not know where the Sun-Times had gathered it's information.
