Man fatally shot during argument outside South Shore fast food restaurant

The man was arguing with another man about 9 p.m. in the 2100 block of East 71st Place, when the other man pulled out a handgun and fired shots, striking him multiple times.

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

Sun-Times file

A man was shot and killed during an argument Tuesday outside a fast food restaurant in South Shore.

Randy Casselle Houseton, 27, was arguing with another man about 9:40 p.m. in the 2100 block of East 71st Place when the other man pulled out a handgun and fired shots, Chicago police said.

Houseton was shot multiple times and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

No one was in custody.

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