Niko L. Walker was found shot to death early Christmas morning in the South Shore neighborhood.
The 21-year-old Walker was found at 12:49 a.m. Sunday, lying on the ground in the backyard of a home in the 2600 block of East 76th Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Walker, of the 7700 block of South Shore Drive, had been shot in the head, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:12 a.m., police and the medical examiner’s office said. An autopsy Sunday ruled his death a homicide.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire