20-year-old Demetrius Miller of Gresham found with fatal gunshot wound in backyard in Longwood Manor

Demetrius “Meechie” Miller was found shot to death Sunday afternoon in the Longwood Manor neighborhood on the Far South Side.

The 20-year-old was found unresponsive about 4:30 p.m. in the backyard of a home in the 9800 block of South Peoria, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Miller had suffered a gunshot wound to the back, and was pronounced at the scene at 4:53 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.

An autopsy Monday found he died of a gunshot wound to the buttocks, the medical examiner’s office said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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