Man shot, killed in Austin neighborhood: police

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A man died after he was shot five times in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side, police said.

Daquan Conner, 19, was standing on the sidewalk at 12:38 p.m. Monday in the 500 block of North Lamon Avenue when someone shot at him and ran away, according to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Conner was shot twice in the abdomen, twice in the upper thigh and once in the shoulder, police said. He died at Stroger Hospital.

Police said witnesses were not cooperating.

Area North detectives are investigating.

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