18-year-old shot dead in East Garfield Park

SHARE 18-year-old shot dead in East Garfield Park

A man was fatally shot Monday morning in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.

The shooting happened in the 100 block of North Kedzie at 10:52 a.m., police said.

The 18-year-old victim, identified as Dwayne Frazier Jr., was shot multiple times in the chest and arm, and was driven to Mount Sinai Hospital, according to police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.

Frazier, of the 2600 block of West Gladys, was pronounced dead at 11:17 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

The Latest
The man, 29, had gunshot wounds to the face and thigh when he was found by police responding to a call of shots fired in the 6300 block of South Albany Avenue.
Thomas Howard, 62, allegedly targeted a home in the 5700 block of North Mason Avenue, down the block from him, for several months from May 2022 through January 2023, police said.
He hasn’t proposed, and he says he won’t until they try living together first.
With the help of his parents and older siblings — all of them athletes — the Cubs’ new shortstop found stardom.
Film about Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart enlists singers to impersonate pop, rock and soul legends, and they can’t live up to the originals.