Man, 18, killed in West Pullman shooting

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A man was killed in a West Pullman neighborhood shooting Monday afternoon on the Far South Side.

About 4:30 p.m., 18-year-old Reginald Fleming Jr. was walking through a vacant lot in the 12000 block of South Prairie when a dark car pulled up nearby and someone inside shot him in the head, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Fleming, who lived in the 2100 block of 175th Street in Lansing, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 7:51 p.m., the medical examiner’s office said.


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