Man beaten to death with bottle during fight in West Englewood identified as 41-year-old Charles Johnson

A man beaten to death with a bottle Monday evening in the West Englewood neighborhood has been identified as 41-year-old Charles Johnson.

Paramedics called for police help after finding him about 6:30 p.m. near the intersection of 63rd Street and Ashland, according to Chicago Police.

He had been struck in the head with a bottle during a fight, police said.

Johnson died at Stroger Hospital at 7:13 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 7300 block of South Kedzie in Chicago Lawn.

An autopsy found he died of multiple head injuries from an assault with a bottle, and his death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.

Area South detectives are investigating, but no one was in custody as of early Friday.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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