Man found shot to death in Chicago Lawn identified as 21-year-old Darius Brown

A man found shot to death in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood Friday night on the Southwest Side has been identified as 21-year-old Darius C.E. Brown.

Officers responding to a call of shots fired about 9 p.m. found Brown, who had been shot repeatedly in the head, inside a minivan parked in the 6600 block of South Fairfield, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Brown was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:35 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 7900 block of South Whipple.

An autopsy found he died of a gunshot wound to the head and his death was ruled a homicide.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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