Police find 51-year-old Gregorio Aguilar with fatal gunshot wounds just a block from his home in Cragin

Gregorio Aguilar was found fatally shot early Tuesday just about a block away from his home in the Cragin neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

Police investigate in the 2500 block of North Lavergne, where a man was shot to death early Tuesday. | NVP News

Police investigate in the 2500 block of North Lavergne, where a man was shot to death early Tuesday. | NVP News


Officers responding to calls of a person down at 1:32 a.m. in the 2500 block of North Lavergne found the 51-year-old Aguilar with a gunshot wound to the lower abdomen, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:50 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 5000 block of West Deming.

An autopsy found Aguilar died of multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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