Man fatally shot in Chatham

Keyonis Langston was in a car in the 8000 block of South Vernon Avenue when he was shot, police said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

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A man was fatally shot in a car Thursday night in Chatham on the South Side.

Keyonis Langston, 25, was in the 8000 block of South Vernon Avenue when someone shot him in the head just before 8 p.m., Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

He was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

No one was in custody.

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