A 35-year-old man was found fatally shot in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side early Saturday.
Officers responding to a call of a person shot found Anthony Howard unresponsive in the alley of the 200 block of North Laramie about 2:50 a.m., according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Howard, of the 100 block of South Parkside, was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:06 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. He died of a gunshot wound from the neck to the head, and his death was ruled a homicide.
The fatality was Austin’s third shooting in just over three hours on Saturday.
