Gunman’s vehicle found incinerated after fatal shooting in Back of the Yards

A gunman’s vehicle was found set on fire several blocks from a fatal shooting early Sunday in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side, according to police.

Kendall Brown, 26, was walking about 1 a.m. in the 4800 block of South Paulina Street when a gunman fired from a passing white Jeep, Chicago Police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said.

Brown, who lived in the same neighborhood, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with gunshots to his abdomen and ankle, authorities said. He was pronounced dead at 1:54 a.m.

The Jeep was found unoccupied and on fire in the 4300 block of South Paulina, according to police.

Area Central detectives were investigating the shooting.