Officers making well-being check find 74-year-old man fatally shot inside Englewood home

Officers found the door open at the home in the 6900 block of South Aberdeen Street and discovered the man on the floor with a gunshot wound to the head, police said.

SHARE Officers making well-being check find 74-year-old man fatally shot inside Englewood home
Los robos ocurrieron entre las 7:20 y las 8:20 a.m. el jueves, según la policía. | Archivos Sun-Times

A man was found fatally shot Tuesday night on the South Side.

Sun-Times file

A 74-year-old man was found fatally shot inside his home in Englewood on the South Side Tuesday night.

Officers were responding to a request for a well-being check from a family member and found the door open at the home in the 6900 block of South Aberdeen Street, police said.

They discovered Milton Taylor on the floor with a gunshot wound to the head, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say the shooting apparently occurred between 7:30 p.m. Monday and 6:55 p.m. Tuesday.

No one was in custody.

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