Man shot to death during argument in Burnside: police

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A man was shot to death Friday afternoon in the Burnside neighborhood on the South Side.

Keavith Pitts, 30, was arguing with someone in a hallway about 4:25 p.m. in the 9200 block of South Dauphin Avenue when that person fired shots, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Officers arrived and found a handgun on Pitts’s body, police said. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he died. An autopsy found he died of gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide.

No arrests have been made, police said.

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