Man, 19, fatally shot in Auburn Gresham

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A man was fatally shot Sunday evening in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.

Akim Gaddis, 19, was standing outside in the 8400 block of South Loomis at 6:53 p.m. when a vehicle pulled up and someone inside opened fire, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Gaddis, who lived on the same block, was shot in the back and taken to  Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 7:48 p.m., according to the police and the medical examiner’s office.

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