23-year-old James Johnson shot to death inside store in South Shore

A South Side man was shot to death inside a store in the South Shore neighborhood Tuesday morning.

Just before noon, someone walked up to James Johnson when he went into the store in the 2000 block of East 71st Street, and shot him in the chest, according to Chicago Police.

Johnson, 23, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died at 12:38 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

No one was in custody for the killing as of Wednesday morning.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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