Richard Porter found face-down on sidewalk with fatal gunshot wound not far from his Marquette Park home

Richard Porter was found shot to death on a sidewalk about two blocks from his home in the Marquette Park neighborhood Wednesday night on the Southwest Side

Officers responded about 9:40 p.m. to a call of a person shot and found the 27-year-old face-down on the sidewalk in the 7300 block of South Maplewood, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Porter, who lived in the 7100 block of South Rockwell, had suffered a gunshot wound to the head, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:52 p.m., authorities said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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