CHICAGO — A 50-year-old man was shot to death in Avalon Park early Tuesday, police said.
At 3:17 a.m., the man was standing in a gas station parking lot in the 8300 block of South Stony Island Avenue, talking to a driver of a minivan, when a man walked up to him, police said. The man forced the 50-year-old into the mini-van and tried to take the victim's cellphone.
The man fired shots, hitting the 50-year-old in his chest, back and right arm, police said. The victim was taken to Northwestern Hospital in critical condition and later pronounced dead.
The man was identified as Norman White, of the 8800 block of South Ridgeland Avenue, in Cook County Medical Examiner's Office records. He was pronounced dead at 4:10 a.m. and an autopsy showed he died from multiple gunshot wounds in a homicide.
No one was in custody.
