Devell Coleman shot to death while walking just a block from his home in Brainerd

Devell L. Coleman was shot to death while walking Wednesday night just a block from his home in the Brainerd neighborhood on the South Side.

Chicago Police investigate a shooting Wednesday night in the 9100 block of South Emerald. | Network Video Productions

Chicago Police investigate a shooting Wednesday night in the 9100 block of South Emerald. | Network Video Productions


Just before 9 p.m., the 24-year-old Devell Coleman was on a sidewalk in the 9100 block of South Emerald when someone in a dark-colored car fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Coleman was struck in the head and back, and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 9:27 p.m., authorities said. He lived bout a block away from the shooting scene.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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