A man is in custody for a deadly shooting on Chicago’s Near North Side after officers heard gunfire, spotted the suspect casually walking away with a cane, and tracked him to the Loop using surveillance cameras and license plate readers.
The shooting unfolded just before 9:50 a.m. Saturday in the 800 block of North Cambridge Avenue. A 46-year-old man, sitting inside a Chevy Suburban, was ambushed by a gunman who walked up and opened fire in broad daylight.
Officers in an unmarked CPD vehicle nearby initially mistook the gunfire for fireworks—until the victim, bleeding and desperate, drove up to them for help. Despite their efforts, the man was pronounced dead at the scene with multiple gunshot wounds to his back, police said…