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With help from a stranger, a dad is expected to survive after being shot in the forehead while driving in Chicago: 'It's a miracle he's alive'

CHICAGO - The Audi was stopped in the middle of the street. A woman was standing beside it screaming hysterically as she tightly held a little girl dressed as Snow White.

Opening the driver's side door, Ivan Escobar saw a man behind the wheel bleeding from a gunshot wound on his face. An emergency room nurse, Escobar said he went into "automatic mode" and grabbed the closest thing he could find to press on the

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