Man killed in NW Side shooting

Sun-Times Media Wire, January 18, 2013 6:02AM

A man was fatally shot in the Portage Park neighborhood Thursday evening on the Northwest Side, police said.

The man was shot about 6 p.m. in the 4700 block of West Belmont Avenue, according to the police and fire departments.

The man was standing on the sidewalk when a gunman approached and shot him once in the back, police said.

Jorge Valdez-Benitez, 18, of the 4900 block of Avery Road in Dublin, Ohio, was pronounced dead at 6:28 p.m. at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, authorities said.

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