Ronald Sawyer shot dead in Roseland in first murder of 2014

Ronald Sawyer was shot to death Friday afternoon in the Roseland neighborhood in the city’s first killing of 2014.

Sawyer, 30, was shot about 1:15 p.m. in the 300 block of West 114th Street, authorities said.

Officers responded to a call of a man shot and found him with gunshot wounds to the face, back, hand and buttocks, police said.

Sawyer, of the 11000 block of South Parnell Avenue, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 4:08 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The shooter ran west into an alley, where he got into a vehicle and fled east on 115th Street, police said.

Area South detectives are investigating.

— Sun-Times Media Wire

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