Man found shot to death in West Garfield Park identified as 20-year-old Christopher Johnson Jr.

A man who was shot to death early Saturday in the West Garfield Park neighborhood has been identified as 20-year-old Christopher James Edward Johnson Jr.

Johnson was found by officers responding to a call of a person shot about 4:15 a.m. in the 4400 block of West Monroe, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:27 a.m., authorities said. An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds, and his death was ruled a homicide.

Johnson lived on the same block where he was shot.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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