Emmett Marsh of Peoria fatally shot while sitting in car in North Lawndale


Emmett Marsh of Peoria was shot to death Friday night in North Lawndale.

The 35-year-old Marsh was sitting in a parked vehicle in the 1100 block of South Richmond at 8:20 p.m. when someone walked up to the car and shot him in the torso, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

A friend drove Marsh to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:35 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 1600 block of South Stanley Street in Peoria.

Police are investigating whether the shooting was gang-related.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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