Larry Matthews dies five days after being found with multiple gunshot wounds on Homan Square sidewalk

Five days after he was shot multiple times on a Homan Square neighborhood sidewalk on the West Side, Larry Matthews died at a hospital.

Officers responding to an unrelated call about 10:30 a.m. Oct. 28 in the 3400 block of West Lexington found the 25-year-old on a corner with multiple gunshot wounds, including at least one to the head, according to Chicago Police.

Matthews was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died at 8:22 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 1400 block of South Sawyer.

No one was in custody for the shooting Friday morning.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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