A 27-year-old man was fatally wounded Wednesday night on the South Side in the Douglas neighborhood, Chicago police said.

Shortly before 10 p.m., officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 3500 block of South Rhodes Avenue and found a man lying unresponsive on the ground. Residents of a nearby large apartment building reported hearing gunfire and saw several police vehicles and an ambulance shortly after the shooting.

The victim had suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to UChicago Medicine where he was pronounced dead.

No one was in custody for the fatal shooting and detectives were investigating. Originally Published: August 7, 2025 at 7:09 AM CDT

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