Police: Passersby find man with fatal gunshot wound in Fernwood

A 27-year-old man was shot to death early Friday in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.

Witnesses in a passing vehicle found Vincent Hubbard lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the chest about 12:15 a.m. in the 10000 block of South Parnell, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

They drove Hubbard, who lived in the Longwood Manor neighborhood, to Roseland Community Hospital, where he died at 1 a.m., authorities said.

The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately known. No one was in custody Friday morning.