Crime News Chicago

Man, 36, killed in Scottsdale

The man was shot about 11 p.m. in the 8500 block of South Cicero Avenue, Chicago police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

A 19-year-old man was killed, and two other men were wounded June 15, 2020, on the Near West Side. — The man was shot after getting into an argument with two teenage boys, police said.

A Worth man was fatally shot Monday in Scottsdale on the border of Chicago and the southwest suburb of Burbank.

Jonathan Szurgot, 36, got into an argument with two teenage boys about 11 p.m. in the 8500 block of South Cicero Avenue when one of the teens pulled out a gun and shot him, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Szurgot was struck in the chest and taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was pronounced dead, police said.

The two teens ran northbound on Cicero and are not in custody, police said. Area Central detectives are investigating.

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