Man found fatally shot in Gresham apartment complex

Rashaun Johnson, 21, was found by a tenant with two gunshot wounds to the head in the entry way of the complex in the 7800 block of South Laflin Street about 1:30 a.m., police said.

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A man was found shot to death in an apartment complex May 22, 2022 on the South Side.

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A man was found fatally shot Sunday morning in a Gresham apartment complex on the South Side.

Rashaun Johnson, 21, was found by a tenant with two gunshot wounds to the head in the entry way of the complex in the 7800 block of South Laflin Street about 1:30 a.m., Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

No other injuries were reported, officials said.

No one was in custody.

The man is the seventeenth person killed in the Auburn Gresham community area so far this year, according to Sun-Times data.

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