18-year-old Antonio Pollards fatally shot while walking in Austin

An 18-year-old man shot and killed Wednesday morning in the West Side Austin neighborhood has been identified as Antonio Pollards.

He was walking westbound in the 4600 block of West Madison Street about 9:30 a.m. when someone opened fire from a passing vehicle, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Pollards suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 10:05 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the 1400 block of South Drake.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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