Howard Coleman-Patton

Death by Force

Howard Coleman-Patton, a 35-year-old man, was found on the evening of June 7, 2025, slumped over the wheel of a car in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, in the 2000 block of East 79th Street. Police said he had been shot in the right arm, and a 4-year-old boy seated in the back of the vehicle was unharmed.

Officers and paramedics took Coleman-Patton to University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 6:46 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s of ...Read More

Chicago Sun-Times: Man fatally shot in car in South Shore; a 4-year-old boy in the backseat is unharmed

ABC7 Chicago: Man shot, killed inside vehicle in South Shore, Chicago police say

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