Morial Ewing fatally shot in South Shore

Morial Ewing was killed in a South Shore shooting that left another man critically wounded early Monday.

Officers heard gunshots about 12:10 a.m. and found two men shot in the 7800 block of South Shore Drive, police said. The shooting happened less than a block from Rainbow Beach Park.

Ewing, 28, of the 8100 block of South Bennett Avenue, was shot multiple times and died at the scene, authorities said.

The other man, 29, was shot in the chest and leg, police said. He was taken in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Nobody has been charged for the killing.

Area South detectives are investigating.

— Sun-Times Media Wire, Network Video Productions

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