Tinley Park man fatally shot in South Shore

A southwest suburban man was shot to death in the South Shore neighborhood Monday night.

Officers responding about 9:20 p.m. to a call of a traffic crash with injuries in the 6900 block of South Clyde found 40-year-old Michael Griffin lying in the street with a gunshot wound to his abdomen, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Griffin, who lived in the 17500 block of Ridgeland Avenue in Tinley Park, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:23 p.m., the medical examiner’s office said. His death was ruled a homicide.