By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
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The death of 45-year-old Kristopher Weiss in the Bridgeport neighborhood last month has been ruled a homicide.
Emergency crews responded to a person down in the 3000 block of South Normal at 11:46 p.m. July 22 and found Weiss, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He had been involved in an altercation with two other men, authorities said. One of the men punched him in the face, causing him to fall backward and strike his head.
The two men then took off in a black pickup, police said.
Weiss, who lived about a block away in the 2900 block of South Normal, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:38 p.m. July 24, according to the medical examiner’s office.
An autopsy did not immediately rule on cause and manner of death, with results pending further investigation, but on Tuesday, the medical examiner’s office said Weiss died of blunt force head injuries, and ruled his death a homicide.
Police said Tuesday that no one was in custody and the investigation is ongoing.
Weiss was the father of ayoung son, and memorial donations to the Michael Weiss Trust Fund can be made to South Central Bank, 525 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago, 60607.