Man, 24, shot and killed in Englewood

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A 24-year-old man was fatally shot early Sunday in the South Side Englewood neighborhood.

Cornelius Bell was outside about 3:20 a.m. in the 800 block of West 59th Street when someone in a passing car shot him multiple times, Chicago Police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said.

Bell was shot in the chest, stomach, back and arms, and later died at the University of Chicago Medical Center, authorities said. He lived in the Ida B. Wells neighborhood.

Area South detectives were conducting a homicide investigation.

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