Police: Man shot to death in Goose Island

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Chicago Police investigate in the 1000 block of North Willard Court, where a 35-year-old man was found shot to death in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle early Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

A man was found shot to death early Thursday in the Goose Island neighborhood on the Near North Side, police said.

Officers responding to reports of a person shot at 12:18 a.m. in the 1000 block of North Willard Court found the 35-year-old man in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle with a gunshot wound to the head, according to Chicago Police.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office could not immediately confirm the death.

About five hours earlier, another man was killed in a separate shooting about a block away.

Chicago Police investigate a homicide in the 1000 block of North Willard Court early Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

Chicago Police investigate a homicide in the 1000 block of North Willard Court early Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

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