59-year-old Antioch man shot and killed in his driveway: Police

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ANTIOCH (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Lake County Sheriff's investigators said they are talking to persons of interest in the murder of a 59-year-old Antioch Township man.

It was Wednesday evening about 7:30 when Lake County Sheriff's deputies were called to a home in unincorporated Antioch after a report of a man who was found in the driveway and was unresponsive.

He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead there.

An autopsy determined that the man, 59-year-old William Martys, died from a gunshot wound to the head.

Authorities said Martys lived at the address where he was found, in the 40700 block of North Black Oak Avenue in Antioch Township.

Lake County Sheriff's officials said the death is being investigated as a homicide.

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