Man, 24, killed in Lawndale shooting

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A man was shot to death in a Lawndale neighborhood shooting early Sunday on the Southwest Side.

At 5:07 a.m., 24-year-old Dontae Thomas was standing in the 1400 block of South Avers when someone in a white vehicle fired shots, striking him in the abdomen, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 7:05 a.m., the medical examiner’s said.

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