Man killed in Loop shooting

The man was shot in the first block of East Lake Street then ran to a nearby hotel lobby in the 200 block of North Wabash Avenue.

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

A man was fatally shot Friday in the Loop.

Sun-Times file

A man was killed in a shooting late Friday in the Loop.

Brian Mallett, 39, was on a sidewalk about 11:30 p.m. in the first block of East Lake Street when someone opened fire, striking him in the abdomen, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Mallett ran to a nearby hotel lobby in the 200 block of North Wabash Avenue and was then taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He was initially listed in critical condition and later died, police said.

No arrests were reported.

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