LITTLE VILLAGE — A 24-year-old man died early Saturday morning after being shot in the Little Village neighborhood, according to Officer Stacey Cooper, a Chicago Police spokeswoman.
The man, identified as Jose L. Velasquez of the 2800 block of West 21st Street, was taking a walk with his wife around midnight in the 2100 block of South Fairfield Avenue when two or three people came out of a nearby gangway, yelling loudly, Cooper said.
Someone from the group then fired shots, striking Velasquez in his back, she said.
He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 1:41 a.m. according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
No one is currently in custody for the shooting.
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