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About 1:45 a.m., officers responding to calls of a person shot found six people wounded. A man, 40, took himself to Stroger Hospital, where he died, officials said.
Police said the man was holding a knife to his father's throat when they shot him.
Last year, the three-time Supercars champion in Australia and New Zealand was a debuting driver in the Cup Series. Now, having won the Grant Park race in Chicago, he’s the hunted.
NASCAR was celebrating its 75th year, but this would be the first time in the sport’s history that stock cars would barrel on and around city streets, an undertaking about which drivers were wary.