Garfield Park & North Lawndale

Crime & Mayhem

North Lawndale Shooting Kills Man

August 19, 2014 7:55am | Updated August 19, 2014 7:55am
The 27-year-old man was found unresponsive in the street just before midnight.
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DNAinfo/Josh McGhee

CHICAGO — A 27-year-old man was fatally shot Monday night in North Lawndale.

Police were called to the 800 block of South Central Park Avenue around 11:35 p.m. Monday and found the man in the street with gunshot wounds to the chest, said Officer Ron Gaines, a Chicago Police spokesman.

The man was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead,  Gaines said.

No one is in custody for the shooting.

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