Man, 18, shot to death in Gresham

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A teenage boy was fatally shot Sunday morning in an apartment stairwell in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.

Tion Anderson, 18, was shot about 10:30 a.m. on the third floor of a building in the 1600 block of West 79th Street, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. Anderson fell and was found on the second floor landing, authorities said.

Neighbors called police, who found Anderson with a gunshot wound to his head, officials. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Anderson lived in the same block where he was shot, the medical examiner’s office said.

Police said there were no witnesses to the shooting, and offered no description of the shooter.

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