20-year-old man found shot to death in West Garfield Park

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An 18-year-old man was fatally shot December 4, 2021 in Englewood.

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A 20-year-old man was shot to death early Saturday in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.

Christopher James Edward Johnson Jr., 20, was found by officers responding to a call of a person shot about 4:15 a.m. in the 4400 block of West Monroe, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Johnson, who lived on the same block, was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:27 a.m., authorities said. An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds, and his death was ruled a homicide.

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