CHICAGO — An investigation is underway after a man was found shot to death in an alley on the city’s Southwest Side early Saturday morning.
According to Chicago police, the victim was located just before 7 a.m. in the 3600 block of West 26th Street.
Officers said the victim suffered gunshot wounds to his head and back and was pronounced dead on the scene.
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The gruesome discovery has put some residents in the area on edge.
“This is the third body we have in the alley and it is concerning to the residents,” Little Village Community Council President Baltazar Enriquez said.
Enriquez said it is a pattern that he worries is becoming all too common.
“Little Village is a hard-working community and people start to work at three in the morning,” Enriquez said. “So one of our vendors called, who sells tamales right where they found the body, around five in the morning to let me know this was happening.”
In two separate cases in 2023, Chicago police found the bodies of two young women that had been dumped in an alley in the neighborhood.