Man killed in Ford Heights shooting

A man died at an Indiana hospital Saturday after he was shot in south suburban Ford Heights.

Remone Butler Jr., 27, was shot in the 1400 block of Diplomat Lane in Ford Heights, according to a statement from the Lake County, Indiana, coroner’s office.

About 12:50 a.m. police on patrol in the area heard shots fired coming from the 1400 block of Diplomat Lane in Ford Heights, according to Cook County sheriff’s police. Officers responding to the scene found Butler lying on the ground with gunshot wounds to the torso and surrounded by a crowd of about 500 people.

As officers cleared the crowd from the scene of the shooting, a loaded handgun was found near Butler, police said.

Butler, who lived in south suburban Park Forest, was taken to Franciscan Health in Dyer, Indiana, where he was pronounced dead at 1:41 a.m., the coroner’s office said. He died of multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide.

While investigating, officers learned that a second man, 22, was also wounded and taken to Franciscan Health in Olympia Fields, with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, police said.

An investigation into the circumstances of the shooting is ongoing.

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