Man found fatally shot in Austin

A man was found shot to death early Tuesday in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.

Officers responding to reports of a person down at 4:42 a.m. in the 5000 block of West Monroe found 32-year-old Isaac L. Hughes-Allen lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the face, according to Chicago Police and the Cook county medical examiner’s office.

Hughes-Allen was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:55 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the Northwest Side Belmont Cragin neighborhood.

The circumstances of the shooting were not known as Area North detectives conduct a homicide investigation.