19-year-old Shaqwon Stidhun shot and killed by two men near his home in Austin

Nineteen-year-old Shaqwon I. Stidhun was killed Friday afternoon in a shooting just a block away from his home in the West Side Austin neighborhood.

At 3:17 p.m., Stidhun was standing in the 5500 block of West Crystal when two men approached him and one or both fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The men then drove away in an older model sedan.

Stidhun, who lived about a block away in the 5400 block of West Crystal, was taken to Loyola University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 4:07 p.m., authorities said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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