Man, 19, shot to death in Englewood

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A man was shot to death Tuesday night in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side, authorities said.

Witnesses to the shooting said a male with a handgun fired shots at 19-year-old Lamanta Reese, striking him multiple times at 7:47 p.m. in the 700 block of West Marquette, Chicago Police and Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Police initially said Reese was 29.

Reese, of the South Shore neighborhood, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn with gunshot wounds to his head, groin, shoulder and abdomen, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

Area South detectives were conducting a homicide investigation. No one was in custody Tuesday night.

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