CHICAGO — Police are looking for two suspects after a man was shot and killed on a Lincoln Park sidewalk Wednesday evening. It happened around 9:20 p.m. in the 800 block of West Lill.
A local resident reported hearing one gunshot, seeing a flash, and then hearing someone yell, “Let’s get out of here.” Two people ran from the scene.
CPD said a 28-year-old man was found on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to his chest. He was pronounced dead at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center at 9:58 p.m.
The witness described the suspects as a Black male standing about 5’11” tall, wearing a gray or white hoodie over his head, and a heavyset Black female, about 5’8” tall, wearing a navy hoodie.
Wednesday’s shooting is the first of the year for Lincoln Park, which had three shootings in 2024. The neighborhood had no shooting victims as of this date in 2023, 2022, 2020, and 2019. There were two at this point in 2021.
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