Ramon Tolbert fatally shot on street corner in Galewood

Ramon M. Tolbert was shot to death in the Galewood neighborhood Friday evening.

Tolbert, 35, was standing on a corner at 6:12 p.m. in the 1500 block of North Meade Avenue when a male got out of a vehicle and approached him with a gun, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The man fired shots, then got back in the vehicle and drove away, police said.

Tolbert, of the 200 block of North Kildare Avenue, was shot in the head and chest, and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:49 p.m., authorities said.

Tolbert was an aspiring rapper who performed as Money Mone.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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