Samuel WIlliams died about 10 hours after being shot in Hermosa on Sunday night

Twenty-three-year-old Samuel Williams died Monday, more than 10 hours after being shot on the block where he lived in the Hermosa neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

Officers responding to a call of shots fired just after 7 p.m. Sunday in the 1900 block of North Karlov found Williams unresponsive on the ground with gunshot wounds to the face, chest, back and hand, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Williams was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 5:33 a.m. Monday, authorities said. He lived in the 1900 block of North Kedvale.

Police did not have more details on the shooting as of Tuesday morning.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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