Officials are still trying to identify a man who was found fatally shot in a West Side alley early Tuesday after no one in the neighborhood called 911 to report the gunfire that killed him. The man is the latest shooting victim to go undiscovered in an area that used to be covered by the city’s ShotSpotter network.
The gunfire detection system was dismantled last year by Mayor Brandon Johnson despite repeated attempts by a supermajority of the City Council to keep the technology active.
A 911 caller reported finding the victim bleeding and unresponsive in an alley behind the 1800 block of South Ridgeway at about 12:37 a.m. Officers arrived to find the man lying on the pavement with gunshot wounds throughout his body. He was transported to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to Chicago police…