CHICAGO — A man was shot and killed in an Uptown alley on Tuesday evening, according to Chicago police. He is the first person murdered in the neighborhood this year.
Around 7:39 p.m., police responded to a call of an injured man on the ground and found the victim in an alley behind the 900 block of West Eastwood. He had a single gunshot wound near his right upper hip.
Based on a preliminary investigation, police suspected the man was shot about 30 minutes before anyone called 911. A surveillance video showed a man running from the alley and jumping into a silver car parked in a nearby McDonald’s lot. The vehicle fled the scene.
The victim, who was wearing a sombrero at the time of the shooting, remained unidentified as of early Wednesday morning.
He is the neighborhood’s first murder victim of 2024 and the eleventh individual shot in Uptown this year. Here’s how that compares to October 1 statistics from recent years:
2023: 12 shot, none fatally
2022: 15 shot, 5 fatally
2021: 16 shot, 1 fatally
2020: 14 shot, 4 fatally
