A 68-year-old man was shot to death during an attempted robbery in the Logan Square neighborhood early Thursday.
Cayetano Sandoval was shot in the chest multiple times in the 1900 block of North Spaulding Avenue about 1:50 a.m., authorities said.
Witnesses in a nearby bar told officers that two people tried to rob Sandoval, police said. One of the robbers knocked him to the ground, then the other shot him multiple times.
Both robbers ran off after the shooting, police said.
Sandoval, of the 1600 block of West Ontario Street, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Police said he was shot as many as five times.
Area North detectives are investigating.
— Sun-Times Media Wire