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Man killed in possible Rogers Park drive-by: police

The 47-year-old was shot in a what may have been a drive-by involving a black SUV in the 7600 block of North Ashland Avenue, according to Chicago police.

By  Sun-Times Wire
   
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A teenage boy was shot May 4, 2021, in Gage Park.

A man was shot to death Nov. 10, 2019, in the 7600 block of North Ashland Avenue.

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A man was shot to death Sunday in Rogers Park on the North Side.

Vance Williams, 47, was shot about 2:10 a.m. in what may have been a drive-by involving a black SUV in the 7600 block of North Ashland Avenue, according to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Responding officers found him in a courtyard with a gunshot wound to the chest, police said. He was taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead. Williams lived in Rogers Park.

No one is in custody as Area North detectives investigate.

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