Man shot to death in West Rogers Park identified as 26-year-old Trasean Stokes

A man shot to death Friday night in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side has been identified as 26-year-old Trasean Stokes.

Stokes was outside at 8:55 p.m. in the 6000 block of North Talman when a group of people walked up and fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Stokes was shot in the chest, and was taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead at 9:35 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the 6000 block of North Fairfield.

An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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