28-year-old John Davis fatally shot in Austin


John Davis was shot to death Thursday night in the West Side Austin neighborhood.

Davis, 28, was standing with a group of people in the 200 block of South Laramie about 8:40 p.m. when two people jumped out of a white van and shot him, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Davis, of the 5300 block of West Ohio, was shot in the back, and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:05 a.m. Friday, authorities said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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