A Chicago man died shielding his 7-year-old daughter from gunfire, according to reports.
Travell Miller, 33, was stuck in traffic driving his daughter to school on Chicago’s West Side on Wednesday morning when the alleged gunman pulled up alongside his vehicle and shot into his car, Chicago police said in a statement.
“The offender then exited his vehicle and shot into victim’s car, striking him multiple times,” reads the statement. “The offender then fled” in what appeared to be a silver Pontiac Grand Prix, according to police.
Miller was transported to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, Newsweek reported. His daughter escaped the incident unharmed.
A doctor told Miller’s father, Joseph Gilmore, that the location of Miller’s wounds show he had bent over his daughter to protect her during the shooting, according to Newsweek.
“He was simply driving his daughter to school. He was talking to his mother [on the phone] as this guy runs up on the car,” Gilmore said, according to Newsweek.
Travell Miller’s identical twin brother, Lavell Miller, told the Chicago Sun-Times that his brother “wasn’t part of any gang life, criminal life. He wasn’t a troubled man, didn’t have any enemies. He was a brother, a father, a son. He was a partner.”
Police are still investigating and have asked that anyone with information about the fatal shooting call detectives or submit a tip anonymously to cpdtip.com, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
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