Man found shot to death in West Englewood alley

Authorities have identified a man who was found shot to death Thursday night in a West Englewood neighborhood alley on the South Side.

Officers responding to an alert of shots fired shortly after 10 p.m. found 29-year-old Lyquond Lashawn Neal with a gunshot wound to his abdomen in the 5900 block of South Paulina, according to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Neal was taken to Holy Cross Hospital in critical condition, where he was pronounced dead at 10:16 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

He wasn’t able to communicate with officers after they found him, and there were no witnesses at the scene, police said.

Area South detectives were investigating.