Man killed, another wounded in West Loop shooting

The two were in the 1100 block of South Des Plaines Street when they were shot just after midnight.

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

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A man was killed and another was wounded early Wednesday in a shooting in the West Loop.

Lonnie Ray Smith, 60, was found just after midnight in the 1100 block of South Des Plaines Street with a gunshot wound, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died, police said,

Another man, 32, was shot in the head and was taken in fair condition to the same hospital.

No arrests were reported.

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