Man shot to death on Near West Side

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A 29-year-old man was shot to death early Tuesday on the Near West Side.

Eddie Huff was sitting in a vehicle at 2:55 a.m. at a stop light in the 200 block of South Western when another male walked up and fired shots into the vehicle, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Huff was shot in the abdomen and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:45 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the 7300 block of South Winchester.

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