Man killed in Bronzeville shooting

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Chicago police officers look at a vehicle parked at the scene where a person was fatally shot Friday morning in the 4200 block of South Cottage Grove in Chicago. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

A man was shot to death Friday morning in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side, authorities said

Officers responded about 4:50 a.m. for a call of a person shot in the 700 block of East 42nd Street and found an Justin A. Kapoor, 27, unresponsive inside a vehicle, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Witnesses told officers that Kapoor had been arguing with another male who took out a gun and shot him. He lived on the same block as the shooting, authorities said.

Police investigate a person fatally shot Friday morning in the 4200 block of South Cottage Grove in Chicago. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Police investigate a person fatally shot Friday morning in the 4200 block of South Cottage Grove in Chicago. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Kapoor was shot twice in his head and once in his arm and was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.

An autopsy Saturday found that Kapoor died from multiple gunshot wounds. His death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.

Area Central detectives were investigating the shooting.

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