64-year-old Louis Pena killed during an assault at his Southwest Side business

Louis Pena found dead Friday morning after an assault inside his office trailer at his business in the Sleepy Hollow neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

Pena, 64, was found with trauma to the front of his head at 9:20 a.m. in the 4200 block of South Keating, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Officers were initially called to the location for a report of a person shot and said Pena was shot twice in the head, police said.

Pena, of the 3800 block of West 65th Street, was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:29 a.m., authorities said. An autopsy on Saturday showed he died of multiple blunt-force and sharp-force injuries from an assault. His death was ruled a homicide.

The owner of a trucking firm, he was found inside the office trailer of his business, according to police. No motive is known and no one was in custody as of Saturday evening.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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