Man found fatally shot in Marquette Park

Officers responding to a ShotSpotter alert in the 7000 block of South Maplewood Avenue found the man with gunshot wounds to his head, shoulder, torso and arm.

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A man was found fatally shot early Tuesday in Marquette Park on the Southwest Side.

Officers responding to a ShotSpotter alert in the 7000 block of South Maplewood Avenue around 12:15 a.m. Zarione Lyric Barnett, 20, with gunshot wounds to his head, shoulder, torso and arm, Chicago police said and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

He was pronounced dead at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, officials said.

No one was in custody.

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