Chicago police are continuing to investigate the death of Alexander Kazanowski, a 25-year-old Avondale man who died days after being found badly beaten on a street corner in the Northwest Side neighborhood last week.
A passerby found Kazanowski lying facedown on the corner of Belmont and Harding around 3:15 a.m. on March 24. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled his death a homicide, caused by head trauma suffered during an assault.
A source familiar with the case previously told CWB Chicago that it appeared Kazanowski was walking home after getting into a disagreement at a local bar. The working hypothesis was that he had been followed from the bar by the other party involved in the dispute…