Downers Grove man fatally shot in West Garfield Park

A Downers Grove man was shot to death early Sunday in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.

Police responding to a call of shots fired found 44-year-old John Serpe shot in the 4500 block of West Monroe Street about 5:10 a.m. Sunday, authorities said.

Officers found Serpe sitting in the driver’s seat with a single gunshot wound to the left side of his chest, authorities said.

Serpe, of the 2900 block of Maple Avenue in Downers Grove, was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:15 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Nobody has been charged in the murder.

Area North detectives are investigating.

— Sun-Times Media Wire

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