Overview

• Officers responded around 9:28 p.m. Friday to the 1300 block of South Michigan Avenue for reports of a shooting.
• They found a 31-year-old on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the face and a firearm in his hand, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
• Police say the incident began as a verbal dispute inside a business between the 31-year-old and a 32-year-old employee.
• Preliminary accounts state the men wrestled for the guard’s handgun and it discharged, striking the 31-year-old in the head.
• Investigators recovered a single shell casing nearby and took the security guard into custody as the inquiry continues.