Antoine Johnson dies less than an hour after being shot in back in Austin

Antoine Johnson was shot to death early Sunday in the West Side Austin neighborhood.

Johnson, 31, was shot in the back at 2:18 a.m. in the 5000 block of West Van Buren, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:06 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the 1900 block of South Homan.

Police could not provide further details about the shooting.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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