Man fatally shot on South Side

He was near the sidewalk about 2 p.m. Thursday in the 7100 block of South Bennett Avenue when someone fired shots at him from a vehicle, Chicago police said.

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A 25-year-old man was killed in a shooting Thursday afternoon on the South Side.

Christopher L. Daniels was near the sidewalk about 2 p.m. in the 7100 block of South Bennett Avenue when someone fired shots at him from a vehicle, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

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

An autopsy released Friday found he died of multiple gunshot wounds and ruled his death a homicide.

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