Solomon Walker killed, second man wounded by stray bullet in Austin

Authorities investigate after a fatal Austin shooting Thursday night. | Network Video Productions

Authorities investigate after a fatal Austin shooting Thursday night. | Network Video Productions

Solomon Walker was killed and another man was wounded by errant gunfire in an Austin neighborhood shooting late Thursday on the West Side.

About 10:45 p.m., officers responding to a call of a person shot in the 5000 block of West Concord found the 22-year-old Walker on a sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the head, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

A 34-year-old man who was standing on a corner nearby was shot in the right leg. He was taken to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, where his condition was stabilized, police said. He wasn’t thought to be an intended target.

Solomon lived several blocks away in the 1700 block of North Monitor.

Police tape surrounds the scene where one man was killed in a shooting Thursday night in Austin. | Network Video Productions

Police tape surrounds the scene where one man was killed in a shooting Thursday night in Austin. | Network Video Productions


—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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