Man fatally shot in Pilsen

Officers found the 50-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the head and hand in the 1400 block of West 17th Street, police said.

An evidence marker.

A man was fatally shot Friday morning on the West Side.

Sun-Times file

A man was fatally shot Friday morning in Pilsen on the West Side.

Officers responding to a call of shots fired about 2:50 a.m., found a 50-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the head and hand in the 1400 block of West 17th Street, Chicago police said.

He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

He was identified as Guadalupe Hinojosa by the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

No one was in custody.

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