Man fatally shot on Near West Side

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Police investigate a shooting Sunday morning in the 2100 block of West Adams. | Matthew Hendrickson/Sun-Times

A man was fatally shot Sunday morning on the Near West Side. 

Alfonso R. Kyles, 31, was found on the sidewalk about 3 a.m. just south of the entrance to Touhy-Herbert Park in the 2100 block of West Adams Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The shooting occurred a half block west of Chicago Bulls College Prep.

He suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:13 a.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office. Kyles lived on the 4900 block of North Humboldt.

Area Central detectives are conducting a homicide investigation.

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