Man found fatally shot in Back of the Yards identified as 39-year-old Alejandro Morales

A man shot to death Wednesday evening in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborhood has been identified as 39-year-old Alejandro Morales.

Morales was shot in the right side of the torso at 7:23 p.m. in the 4300 block of South Paulina, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Morales, who lived about two blocks away in the 4500 block of South Hermitage, was taken to University of Illinois Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:02 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

His death was ruled a homicide.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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