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Devell Coleman, 24, Shot Dead In Brainerd, Officials Say

By Kelly Bauer | February 23, 2017 7:40am

CHICAGO — Devell Coleman, 24, was killed in a shooting in Brainerd on Wednesday night, officials said.

At 8:50 p.m., the man was standing on the sidewalk in the 9100 block of South Emerald Avenue when someone in a dark-colored car fired shots, police said.

The man was hit in his head and back and taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

Coleman, of the same block where he was killed, was pronounced dead at 9:27 p.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.

No one was in custody.