Man killed in Englewood shooting

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A man was shot in the head while sitting in a vehicle late Saturday in the 700 block of West 59th Street. | Network Video Productions

A man was killed in an Englewood neighborhood shooting Saturday night on the South Side.

Michael A. Johnson, 43, was found with a gunshot wound to the head about 10:45 p.m. sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle in the 700 block of West 59th Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Johnson, of the 2900 block of West 79th Street, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead 11:22 p.m., the medical examiner’s office said.

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