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Man found shot to death in Logan Square

About 10:40 p.m., police found Giovanni J. Lozano, 24, unresponsive with a gunshot wound to his head in the 3000 block of North Avers Avenue, police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

A man was fatally shot August 16, 2021 in Chatham. — A man was found fatally shot Dec. 25 on the Northwest Side.

A man was found shot to death Saturday night in Logan Square on the Northwest Side.

About 10:40 p.m., police found Giovanni J. Lozano, 24, unresponsive with a gunshot wound to his head in the 3000 block of North Avers Avenue, Chicago police said.

He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

No one was custody.

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