28-year-old Juan Martinez shot to death in Gage Park neighborhood

Juan Martinez was found shot to death Sunday morning in an alley in the Gage Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

About 5:35 a.m., officers responding to a call of a person down in the alley in the 5300 block of South Washtenaw found 28-year-old Martinez lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to his head, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Martinez was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:54 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the same neighborhood as the shooting.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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