Chicago Gangbanger Shot Dead While Livestreaming on Facebook

A Chicago gang member was livestreaming on Facebook when he came under a hail of gunfire. The man, later identified by Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office as 28-year-old Antonio Perkins, died of his wounds. Perkins was a known gang member and had previously been convicted for making heroin.

Perkins was on Chicago Police Department’s “strategic subjects list” of people determined to be likely targets or suspects in gang violence. CPD detectives have the video and are investigating the homicide.