Ronald Jerome Clarke fatally shot during fight in Back of the Yards apartment


Ronald Jerome Clarke was killed in a shooting in a Back of the Yards neighborhood apartment Tuesday night.

The 23-year-old was in an apartment in the 2000 block of West 52nd Place about 8:21 p.m. when he and another person got into a fight, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The other person then shot Clarke in the face.

Clarke, of the 5300 block of South Hoyne, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:25 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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