Suburban Man Dies After Being Shot Near Chicago's Millennium Park

A man has died after being shot near Millennium Park in downtown Chicago over the weekend, where he had been attending a wine tasting with his sister and girlfriend, officials and family members said. 

Peter Fabbri, 54, of Berwyn, died just before 6 p.m. Sunday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. 

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."

Fabbri 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. 

"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."

A person of interest was in custody Saturday and being questioned, police said. 

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