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Man Fatally Shot With Rifle Fire in Wicker Park Alley

The killing comes in a year with fewer shootings in the Wicker Park-Bucktown area than in recent years.

Overview

  • Officers responded around 1:47 a.m. to reports of shots in the 1500 block of North Honore Street and found the victim in an alley near North Avenue.
  • The man suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead, with police estimating his age at 18 to 25 and not yet releasing an identity.
  • Investigators recovered four rifle shell casings at the scene.
  • Witnesses reported a red SUV speeding out of the alley after the gunfire.
  • Chicago police reported no arrests, and CWB Chicago notes this is the neighborhood’s second shooting of 2025, a slower pace than in 2021–2024, with an editor’s correction rescinding an earlier claim about the city’s first 2025 shooting.