A man shot to death in a drive-by Monday in Dolton is believed to be the south suburb’s seventh homicide this year.
A group of three or four men were standing outside about 8:20 p.m. in the 15300 block of Meadow Lane when a dark-colored vehicle pulled up and someone inside fired shots, according to Dolton Village Trustee and community activist Andrew Holmes.
Marquis Bowens, 26, was struck multiple times and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, Holmes and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
An autopsy released Tuesday found Bowens died of a gunshot wound to his back, the medical examiner’s office said. He lived several blocks away from where he was shot.
After the shooting, Bowens took shelter at a nearby friend’s house, Holmes said.
Another man in the group may have been shot, Holmes said, but no one else had shown up to a hospital with a gunshot wound Monday evening. Dolton police did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
There have been seven fatal shooting in Dolton this year, with three homicides reported in the last 10 days, Holmes said.
Last month, a 16-year-old girl was killed by stray gunfire outside a Dolton convenience store. Days earlier, a mother was fatally shot in front of four of her children in Dolton.
