Man shot while driving in South Chicago identified

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A man who died after being shot in the head and crashing his vehicle Wednesday morning in the South Chicago neighborhood has been identified as a South Side resident.

At 10:52 a.m., 22-year-old Jeromee D. Russell was driving in the 2700 block of East 80th Street when he was shot multiple times, police said. He then crashed his car into another vehicle.

Russell, whom the medical examiner’s office said lived on the South Side, was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:15 a.m. by paramedics, police said.

An autopsy showed he died of a gunshot wound to the chest.


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