Man found dead on Red Line train last week identified

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A man who was found dead on a Red Line train last week on the South Side has been identified.

The man, identified as 54-year-old Christopher Jones, was found unresponsive in a train car about 2:30 a.m. May 10 near the 63rd Street Station, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Jones, of the 1600 block of West LeMoyne, was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:32 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. An autopsy did not rule on his cause and manner of death, with results pending further studies.

Area South detectives are conducting a death investigation.

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