A man was found shot to death inside a vehicle in Gresham on Friday night, but witnesses who heard the gunfire didn’t call police until they saw the man slumped over in his car about an hour later, according to an officer at the scene.
The shooting happened in the 8800 block of South Lowe Avenue in a neighborhood that used to be covered by the city’s now-shuttered ShotSpotter gunfire detection system. If the system had still been active, it could have alerted first responders even though no one who heard the gunfire called for help.
Chicago police said officers responded to a call of a person shot around 10:09 p.m. They found a 37-year-old man in the driver’s seat of a white Nissan Maxima with two gunshot wounds to the chest. Paramedics took him to Christ Hospital, where he was pronounced dead…