Akim Gaddis fatally shot in Auburn Gresham


Akim Gaddis was fatally shot Sunday evening in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.

Gaddis, 19, was standing outside in the 8400 block of South Loomis at 6:53 p.m. when a vehicle pulled up and someone inside opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Gaddis, who lived on the same block, was shot in the back, and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 7:48 p.m., according to the police and the medical examiner’s office.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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