Intruder fatally shoots man in Rogers Park home

The assailant pushed open the back door to a home about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 7600 block of North Sheridan Road, entered and shot the resident to death, police said.

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A man was fatally shot by an intruder inside his Rogers Park home early Tuesday.

The attacker knocked on the back door and pushed it open in the 7600 block of North Sheridan Road about 3:30 a.m., Chicago police said.

The intruder then shot Quentin Pruitt in the living room, hitting him in the chest, police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office said. Pruitt, 45, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

The gunman fled north in an alley, police said.

No arrests were reported.

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