Izzah Readus dies after being shot in the head in Kenwood apartment


Izzah Readus died early Monday after he was shot in the head the night before in the South Side Kenwood neighborhood.

The shooting happened at 10:40 p.m. Sunday in the 800 block of East Bowen Avenue inside a basement apartment, Chicago Police said. The suspect pulled out a handgun, fired shots and then ran away.

Readus, 29, who lived on the same block, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where he died at 2:11 a.m. Monday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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