Man found shot to death in car in Gresham identified

A man shot to death Tuesday night in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side has been identified as a 28-year-old who lived just a block away from where he was killed.

Officers responded to a call of a person shot at 6:22 p.m. in the 8900 block of South Morgan and found Juard Ford in the driver’s seat of a Chevrolet car, suffering from gunshot wounds to the head and torso, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was pronounced dead at the scene at 6:48 p.m., authorities said. An autopsy showed he died of multiple gunshot wounds, according to the medical examiner’s office.

Ford lived just a block from where he was shot.