Man shot to death in Ravenswood

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A 44-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday morning in the Ravenswood neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

Adam Salas was driving in an alley about 5:55 a.m. in the 4800 block of North Rockwell Street when someone came from around the corner and shot him in the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The shooter ran away.

Salas, of the West Town neighborhood, was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 6:39 a.m., authorities said. Police said he was 42, but the medical examiner’s office said he was 44.

Area North detectives are investigating.

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