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Man killed in drive-by in Englewood

Michael P. Means, 30, was sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle when someone in a dark-colored SUV began firing shots in his direction.

By Sun-Times Wire

A police car is parked near the crime scene where a 31-year-old man was fatally shot while sitting in the driver’s seat in the 6400 block of South Hoyne Avenue in Englewood Saturday morning, July 4, 2020.

A 30-year-old man was fatally shot Saturday in Englewood on the South Side.

About 7:15 a.m. he was sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle in the 6400 block of South Hoyne Avenue, when someone inside a dark-colored SUV began firing shots in his direction, Chicago police said.

Michael P. Means was struck in the chest, neck, right arm and rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was pronounced dead, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He lived in Roseland.

An autopsy conducted by the medical examiner’s office said Means died of his injuries, and ruled his death a homicide.

Area One detectives are investigating.

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