Man shot dead in Park Manor apartment

Gregory Shondale, 41, was talking on his cellphone and walking up his apartment when he noticed four people following him.

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Two armed robberies were reported in Bronzeville on the South Side.

Gregory Shondale, 41, was found dead June 18, 2019 with a gun shot wound to the chest.

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A man was shot to death in his apartment Tuesday in Park Manor on the South Side.

About 5:35 a.m., Gregory Shondale, 41, was talking on his cellphone while walking to an apartment in the 6500 block of South Martin Luther King Drive when he told a witness that four people were following him, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He was able to make it into the apartment but was shot in the chest.

Shondale was found in his apartment about 5:40 a.m., according to police. He was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center and pronounced dead less than half an hour later.

No one is in custody as Area Central detectives investigate.

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