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Man fatally shot outside Far South Side laundromat

Darion Hood, 28, was found just before 1 a.m. in the 13300 block of South Greenwood Avenue.

By Sun-Times Wire

Red crime scene tape is seen lit up from a car’s headlights.

A man was found shot to death in a parking lot of a laundromat in Altgeld Gardens early Wednesday.

Darion Hood, 28, was found just before 1 a.m. on the 13300 block of South Greenwood Avenue, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

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

No one was in custody.

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