50-year-old man dies after being struck by stray bullet while sitting in his car at South Side Park

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A 50-year-old man was killed by a stray bullet Tuesday night in Marquette Park on the South Side.

The man was sitting in a car in the near 71st and Kedzie when shots were fired from a nearby disturbance, Chicago police said.

He was struck in the head and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

No one was in custody.

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