Mark Lindsey fatally shot while sitting in a car in Ashburn

Mark Lindsey was fatally shot late Friday in the Ashburn neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

Police said a man was shot to death int he Ashburn neighborhood on the Southwest Side late Friday. | NVP News

Police said a man was shot to death int he Ashburn neighborhood on the Southwest Side late Friday. | NVP News


Just before 11 p.m., the 25-year-old was sitting in a vehicle parked in the 3700 block of West 75th Place when a gunman walked up and opened fire, according to Chicago Police.

Lindsey, shot repeatedly across the chest and body, tried to drive away, but crashed into another vehicle on the block, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 11:34 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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