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Christopher Johnson Jr., 20, Killed In Garfield Park Shooting

By Tanveer Ali | July 15, 2017 9:21am

CHICAGO — A 20-year-old man was fatally shot in West Garfield Park early Saturday morning, police said.

Police found the man lying dead in the street in the 4400 block of West Monroe Street at 4:15 a.m. Saturday.

The man was identified as Christopher James Edward Johnson Jr., of the same block where he was shot, in Cook County Medical Examiner's Office records. Johnson was pronounced dead at 4:27 a.m. and an autopsy showed he died from multiple gunshot wounds in a homicide.

Authorities say circumstances around the shooting are unclear and no one is in custody.