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Lavaris Johnson, 30, Killed In North Lawndale Shooting, Officials Say

By Kelly Bauer | December 16, 2016 8:01am

CHICAGO — Lavaris Johnson, 30, was gunned down in North Lawndale early Friday, officials said.

At 1:07 a.m., officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 1600 block of South Millard Avenue and found the man unresponsive, police said. He had been shot multiple times.

Johnson, of the 4100 block of South Berkley, was pronounced dead at 1:28 a.m. at the scene, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.

The circumstances of the shooting were unknown, police said, and no one was in custody.

Another shooting on Thursday night wounded a man just blocks away in the 1800 block of South Pulaski Road, police said.

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