Man found fatally shot in West Pullman

The man, 46, was found with a gunshot wound to his chest in the 300 block of West 120th Street, police said.

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A man was fatally shot Dec. 14 on the Far South Side.

Sun-Times file

A man was found fatally shot Tuesday night in West Pullman on the Far South Side.

Tyrone Smith, 46, was found with a gunshot wound to his chest about 9:15 p.m. in the 300 block of West 120th Street, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

No one was in custody.

Thirty-three people have been killed in West Pullman so far this year — 13 more than the community had for all of last year, and more than five times what the area recorded in 2019, according to Sun-Times data.

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