Calvin Robinson shot to death while walking in Back of the Yards

Calvin Robinson was shot to death Tuesday afternoon in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side.

Shortly before 5 p.m., a man walked up to the 41-year-old Robinson in the 5200 block of South Bishop and fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Robinson suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the body, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:13 p.m., authorities said. He lived about two blocks from the shooting scene.

The suspect was a black man, thought to be between 25 and 30, wearing a white shirt and red pants, police said.

Area Central detectives were conducting a homicide investigation.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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