Man fatally shot in West Rogers Park

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A person was shot in West Rogers Park Wednesday night. | NVP News

A man who was fatally shot Wednesday night in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side has been identified.

Kaysar Chako, 19, was sitting in a parked vehicle in the 3000 block of West Devon about 9 p.m. when someone exiting a store fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Chako, of the 1900 block of Parkside Drive in Park Ridge, was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:39 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide.

Late Monday, a man was shot to death less than a mile away.

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