19-year-old Patrick Franklin found with fatal gunshot wound in Kenwood

Patrick M. Franklin was found with a fatal gunshot wound Monday afternoon in the South Side Kenwood neighborhood.

Franklin, 19, was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the groin about 12:45 p.m. outside a home in the 4600 block of South Woodlawn, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died at 1:19 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the Douglas neighborhood on the South Side.

No one was in custody for the homicide as of Tuesday morning as Area Central detectives investigate.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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