Man found dead in crashed van on I-57

(Illinois State Police close a stretch of Interstate 57 at 108th Street as first responders investigate a homicide May 16, 2016. The person was found with a fatal gunshot wound and was in the northbound lanes of the expressway)




A man was found shot to death in a van on Interstate 57 on the Far South Side, among three people killed and 11 others wounded in gun violence in Chicago from Monday afternoon through early Tuesday. The 37-year-old man was found around 8:35 p.m. after he crashed the van in the northbound lanes of the expressway near 108th Street, police said.

Witnesses told investigators they saw the man driving a silver van on South Hamlet Avenue near 110th Street, then heard gunshots, police said.  The man drove onto the 111th Street ramp to the northbound lanes of I-57 and crashed, police said. He had a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead on the scene.