Man shot to death on Far South Side identified

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A 24-year-old man who was shot to death Monday afternoon in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side has been identified.

About 4:15 p.m., Jason Barrett was in the first block of East 113th Place when someone got out of a silver SUV and shot him in the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Barrett, of the South Side Woodlawn neighborhood, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 5 p.m., authorities said.

No one was in custody for the shooting.

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