Man shot to death in Rogers Park

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A man was shot to death early Tuesday in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side.

Jevon O’Brien, 26, was shot in the head at 4:05 a.m. in the 1500 block of West Jonquil Terrace, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

O’Brien was taken by friends to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead at 5:50 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the 7700 block of North Paulina.

Additional information on the shooting was not immediately available as witnesses were not cooperating with investigators. Area North detectives are conducting a homicide investigation.

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