A man was fatally shot Sunday afternoon in south suburban Calumet City.
Officers responded to a call of shots fired about 12:30 p.m. in the 1300 block of Mackinaw Avenue, Calumet City police said.
Jerome Stewart, 57, suffered a gunshot wound to his right thigh and was found lying on the ground near 161st Street, police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said. Stewart, who lived in the same block, was take to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 9:45 a.m. Monday.
An autopsy Tuesday found he died of his wound and his death was ruled a homicide, the medical examiner’s office said.
The shooting was being investigated by Calumet City police and the South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force.
