Rashad Collins-Baker found shot to death Sunday morning in Lawndale

Rashad Xavier Collins-Baker was fatally shot early Sunday in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.

Officers responding about 3:05 a.m. to a call of a person shot in the 2400 block of West Lexington found the 23-year-old lying on the ground, suffering from gunshot wounds to the back, according to Chicago Police.

Collins-Baker was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:45 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 100 block of Elm Street.

An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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