Eric Smith was shot to death just a block away from his Austin neighborhood home Saturday morning.
Officers received a call of shots fired in the 4800 block of West Monroe just before 5:30 a.m. They arrived to find the 23-year-old Smith lying facedown on the ground, Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
Smith, who lived a block away in the 4800 block of West Adams, was shot several times and was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:20 a.m., authorities said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire