Man charged in June's fatal Bronzeville shooting

Rashon Kyle
Rashon Kyle Photo credit Chicago Police Department

A man has been charged with murder in a shooting that left a man dead and a woman wounded in Bronzeville in June.

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Rashon Kyle, 23, was arrested Sunday in the Brainerd neighborhood and charged in the June 12 shooting that killed Vincent J. Barnes, Chicago police said.

Barnes, 23, was shot around 4 a.m. in the 42nd and State, police said. Officers found him and a 32-year-old woman on the ground with gunshot wounds.

Barnes died at the University of Chicago Medical Center, while the woman was hospitalized in critical condition with a gunshot wound to her lower back, police said.

Kyle, from Brainerd, was expected in court Wednesday.

(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire & Chicago Sun-Times 2022. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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