A man was shot and killed as he stood in front of a 24-hour convenience store Saturday evening on a busy street in Chatham on the South Side.
About 8:15 p.m., the 31-year-old was standing outside the store in the 500 block of East 79th Street when someone walked up to him with a gun and shot him in the chest, Chicago police said.
He was rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said. He has not yet been identified.
The man was an employee of the store and was smoking a cigarette when he was shot, a person at the scene told the Sun-Times.
“He was standing out there, like he always is, and they shot him.” according to the person, who asked not to be identified.
The phone number listed on the store’s sign had been disconnected.
Area Two detectives are investigating.
