35-year-old Manuel Godinez fatally shot in Back of Yards

Manuel Godinez was shot to death Friday evening in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side.

Witnesses saw someone shoot Godinez, 35, from a dark-colored minivan that pulled up to him at 5:52 p.m. in the 4300 block of South Honore, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Godinez suffered a gunshot wound to his neck and was pronounced dead at the scene at 6:10 p.m., authorities said. He lived about a block from where he was killed.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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