Man fatally shot in car in Austin

He was found Friday morning with a gunshot wound to his head in the 800 block of North Lavergne Avenue, police said.

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A man was fatally shot early Friday in the Austin neighborhood.

About 2:30 a.m., Marquand Jackson, 43, was discovered with a gunshot wound to his head inside a car that struck a parked car in the 800 block of North Lavergne Avenue, according to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he later died, police said.

No one was in custody.

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