Man killed in Hyde Park shooting

He was sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked car in the 5500 block of South Shore Drive when a male approached him and fired shots.

Two men were shot, one fatally, November 19, 2021 in West Englewood.

A man was killed in a shooting Tuesday night in Hyde Park on the South Side.

Earnest Harris Jr., 44, was sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked car about 9:20 p.m. in the 5500 block of South Shore Drive when a male approached him and fired shots, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

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

There was no one in custody.

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