Albert Turnage killed in Roger Park shooting

Albert S. Turnage was killed in a Rogers Park neighborhood shooting that left another man critically wounded early Wednesday.

Officers responding to a call of a person shot in the 1700 block of West Touhy Avenue found two men wounded in an alley about 4:10 a.m. Wednesday, authorities said.

Turnage, 23, was shot in the chest and the 30-year-old man had been shot in the arm, back and shoulder, authorities said.

Turnage, of the 1700 block of West Greenleaf Avenue, died at Presence Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston about two hours later, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The other man was taken to Saint Francis Hospital in critical condition, police said.

Turnage, who had a 6-year-old son, recently got a job working at the Georgia Nut Company in Skokie, his former foster parent, Katie Cangemi, told DNAinfo Chicago.

Nobody has been charged for the killing.

Area North detectives are investigating.

— Sun-Times Media Wire

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