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Man dies in Southwest Side shootingSun-Times Wireon June 25, 2021 at 1:19 am

A man was fatally shot June 24, 2021, on the Southwest Side. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times file

Officers responded to shots fired about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 2800 block of West 85th Street and found the 21-year-old in a parked vehicle, Chicago police said.

A man was killed in a shooting Wednesday in Wrightwood on the Southwest Side.

Officers responded to shots fired about 11:30 p.m. in the 2800 block of West 85th Street and found the 21-year-old in a parked vehicle, Chicago police said.

The man was unresponsive and had gunshot wounds to his head, back and rib area, police said. He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 3:56 a.m. Thursday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was identified as Myles Mackey, who lived in the neighborhood where he was shot, the medical examiner’s office said.

No arrests have been reported. Area One detectives are investigating.

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