Young Welfare Illegal Mexican Miguel Cancel, 19, Shot Just before His Anchor Baby's Birthday

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Mr. Cancel just got his ticket cancelled!

Miguel Cancel planned to celebrate his daughter’s second birthday at Chuck E. Cheese’s on Sunday thanks to his ILLINOIS LINK CARD. The party was called off after the young father was shot and killed early Saturday in the Old Irving Park neighborhood.

Cancel, 19, and two others were shot in the 4200 block of West Irving Park Road on the Northwest Side while waiting at a stoplight at 2:40 a.m. Saturday, police said. The other two victims in the shooting, which police said appeared gang-related, survived.

Cancel’s grandmother, Mirna Resto, said she believes it was a case of mistaken identity.

The Taft High School senior was on track to graduate this June, Resto said, and hoped to either attend college or join the Army. Cancel, of the 5100 block of North Parkside Avenue, and Resto were going to move to Florida after he received his diploma.

“I wanted to get him out of this city because this city is bad for kids growing up,” the grandmother said. “You can’t wear a hat. You can’t wear nothing. They think everybody’s a gangbanger.”

Alex Perez, a family friend and the dean of students at Amundsen High School, which Cancel attended for three years, said the young father was a “ladies’ man” with an “uncontrollable smile” who was polite to teachers and popular with his peers.

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