Man shot to death in Washington Park drive-by identified as 37-year-old Izat Morrar

A man was killed in a drive-by shooting Thursday afternoon in the South Side Washington Park neighborhood has been identified as Izat Morrar.

Morrar, 37, was on the sidewalk at 3:52 p.m. in the 5300 block of South Calumet, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

A vehicle drove by and someone inside opened fire, police said.

Morrar was shot multiple times in the head, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:10 p.m., authorities said.

He lived in the South Loop.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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