Officers responded Saturday to a call of a person shot in the 1200 block of West Washburne Avenue and found a 22-year-old man on the sidewalk, with multiple gunshot wounds to the leg, police said.
Jamal Coleman, of the 5400 block of West Monroe Street, was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, where he died about 3:30 a.m. Saturday, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
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