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Man killed in Lawndale shooting

By Luke Wilusz

screen_shot_2018_08_06_at_10_50_04_am_e1533570677816.png — 1100 block of South Springfield | Google Maps

A man was shot to death early Sunday in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.

Officers responding to reports of shots fired at 3:37 a.m. found 29-year-old Kenyate Sparks with a gunshot wound to the neck in the 1100 block of South Springfield, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Sparks was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 8:52 a.m., authorities said.

Area North detectives were investigating.

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