Man fatally shoots himself as authorities tried to arrest him in Back of the Yards: police

Sun-Times file SHARE COPY LINK Share CLOSE Twitter Facebook Bluesky Email Reddit Flipboard An autopsy is scheduled Tuesday for a man who allegedly fatally shot himself as authorities tried to arrest him Monday morning in the Back of the Yards on the South Side, police said. Members of the U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force, which includes Chicago Police officers, were preparing to serve an arrest warrant at a home in the 5400 block of South Hermitage Avenue around 9:35 a.m. Monday when the 53-year-old man who was the subject of the warrant shot himself in the head, police said. The unidentified man was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was pronounced dead about an hour later, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. An autopsy to determine the cause and manner of his death is scheduled, the medical examiner’s office said. A weapon was recovered at the scene and no officers fired their weapons, officials said. The Investigative Response Team is investigating. SHARE COPY LINK Share CLOSE Twitter Facebook Bluesky Email Reddit Flipboard Sun-Times Wire Chicago Public Media Next Up In Crime Employee hospitalized after break-in at Avondale restaurant Mayor Johnson upends gunshot-detection pilot after voters resoundingly back the technology Chicago man charged in fatal shooting of violence interrupter Andre Thomas in Chicago Heights Woman sexually assaulted, robbed by gunman in Auburn Gresham home: police Man charged in fatal shooting during family argument in Greater Grand Crossing 17-year-old boy charged in 19 burglaries on South, North sides