Witnesses hear gunshots, find Warren Delton with fatal gunshot wounds in West Woodlawn

After hearing gunshots Sunday afternoon in the West Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side, witnesses went to check and found Warren Delton lying on the sidewalk with gunshot wounds.

Just minutes later, he was pronounced dead.

Witnesses told police they heard gunshots about 12:13 p.m., and found the 44-year-old Delton lying on the sidewalk in the 6100 block of South Eberhart, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Delton, whose home address was unknown, had been shot multiple times in the head, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:28 p.m., authorities said.

No one was in custody as of Monday morning.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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