Overview
- Police responded around 4 a.m. to the 5100 block of North Sheridan Road and found a 23-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the back of the head, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
- Investigators documented dozens of yellow evidence markers across Sheridan Road as shell casings littered the area outside the McDonald’s.
- A firearm was recovered near the victim next to a CTA bus stop sign, according to the scene documentation.
- No arrests or identified suspects have been announced as Chicago police investigate the killing as a homicide.
- Local reporting counts the victim as the ninth person shot in Uptown in 2025, down from 18 shooting victims in 2024.