19-year-old Armani Dickinson found fatally shot in Back of the Yards

Nineteen-year-old Armani Dickinson was shot to death early Wednesday in the Back of Yards neighborhood on the South Side.

Technicians remove the body of a 19-year-old man who was shot in the head in the 5300 block of South Hermitage early Wednesday. | Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times

Technicians remove the body of a 19-year-old man who was shot in the head in the 5300 block of South Hermitage early Wednesday. | Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times


Officers called to perform a well-being check at 12:24 a.m. in the 5300 block of South Hermitage found the victim lying unresponsive in the alley, according to Chicago Police.

Dickinson, of the 13000 block of South Ellis, had suffered a gunshot wound to the back of the head and was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:39 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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