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Two gunmen shot and killed a man they were arguing with late Friday morning in Avalon Park on the South Side, Chicago police said.
One of the men struck the 26-year-old victim in his face, causing him to fall down at 11:40 a.m. in the 8300 block of South Stony Island Avenue, police said.
The men then opened fire and struck the man multiple times in his body.
He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center and pronounced dead, police said.
He was identified as Jeffrey King of West Town by the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Three people have been wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday night, including a 12-year-old boy who was grazed by a bullet in Grand Crossing on the South Side.
1 dead, 2 others wounded Thursday in Chicago shootings
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CHICAGO - A man was killed and two others were wounded in shootings Thursday across Chicago.
A man was fatally shot Thursday morning as he got into a ride-share car in South Shore.
The man, 22, had gotten into the backseat of the car in the 2000 block of East 75th Street when a gray Volkswagen sedan pulled up and two people fired shots, Chicago police said.
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