Man found fatally shot in West Garfield Park identified as 37-year-old Askie Wajd

A man found shot to death in the West Garfield Park neighborhood Thursday morning has been identified as West Side resident Askie Wajd.

Wajd, 37, was found unresponsive on the ground just before 5 a.m. in the 4600 block of West Monroe, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was dead at the scene with a gunshot wound to the side of the head, authorities said. He lived about two blocks away in the 4500 block of West Jackson.

Area North detectives are conducting a homicide investigation.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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