Man fatally shot in Princeton Park

He was on the sidewalk about 12:45 p.m. in the 9100 block of South Wentworth Avenue when someone opened fire, striking him multiple times, Chicago police said.

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A 15-year-old boy was wounded in a shooting Aug. 6, 2021, in South Shore.

A man was shot dead June 1, 2021, in Princeton Park.

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A man was killed in a shooting Tuesday in Princeton Park on the South Side.

He was on the sidewalk about 12:45 p.m. in the 9100 block of South Wentworth Avenue when someone opened fire, striking him multiple times, Chicago police said.

The 25-year-old was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the man as Ogonnia Okeke.

Area Two detectives are investigating.

The shooting comes after a Memorial Day weekend in which 34 people were wounded, three fatally, in gun violence across Chicago. It was the city’s least violent Memorial Day weekend in three years.

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