Man fatally shot in Englewood

A 23-year-old man was shot and killed Friday in Englewood on the South Side, police said.

Deonte Fleming was on the sidewalk about 7:08 p.m. in the 1200 block of West 70th Street when someone in a vehicle shot him in the chest and side, authorities said.

He was pronounced dead at the University of Chicago Medical Center at 7:37 p.m., according to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in Scottsdale on the Southwest Side.

An autopsy conducted Saturday confirmed he died of multiple gunshot wounds, the medical examiner’s office said. His death was ruled a homicide.

No one is in custody as Area One detectives investigate.

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