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Man fatally shot in West Pullman

He man was driving in the 11900 block of South Lafayette Avenue early Wednesday when shots were fired.

By Sun-Times Wire

A man was fatally shot in West Pullman on the Far South Side early Wednesday.

Lebron Colon, 18, was shot while driving in the 11900 block of South Lafayette Avenue around 3:10 a.m., Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

He was struck in the chest and crashed into the fence of a home, police said.

The man was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn and pronounced dead, police said.

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