A man killed in a shooting last week in the West Side Austin neighborhood has been identified as a Northwest Side resident.
Officers responded at 6:13 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4, to a call of shots fired in the 1000 block of North Long and found 43-year-old Brian Keith Cheek unresponsive in a gangway, Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
He had suffered a gunshot wound to the torso and was pronounced dead at the scene at 6:22 a.m., authorities said said.
Cheek lived in the Northwest Side Galewood neighborhood, according to the medical examiner’s office.
Area North detectives are investigating the shooting
