22-year-old Devon ‘Bam Bam’ Caffie shot to death while walking in South Shore

Devon “Bam Bam” Caffie was walking Sunday morning in the South Shore neighborhood when two men got out of a car and started shooting, leaving the 22-year-old dead.

Caffie was walking about 11:10 a.m. on the sidewalk in the 6700 block of South Jeffery, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Two male suspects got out of a Ford car nearby and opened fire, police said.

Caffie suffered gunshot wounds to the chest, arm and back of his head; and was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:38 a.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.

The shooters were described as black males in gray clothing, police said. No one was in custody as Area Central detectives investigate.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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