Austin neighborhood youth supervisor slain on West Side
A man who worked for the state as a youth supervisor was fatally shot early Sunday outside a social club in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side, police said.
About 4:30 a.m., police responded to a call of a person shot in the 4200 block of West Division Street and discovered a man unresponsive on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to his back, police News Affairs Officer Michael Fitzpatrick said.
Thomas Tatum, 39, of the 820 block of West Lawler Avenue, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 4:44 a.m., a spokesman for the Cook County Medical Examiner's office said.
The shooting occurred outside of an unidentified social club on the 4200 block of West Division Street and a description of the shooter -- and a motive -- remained unclear early Monday, according to police.
Tatum worked for the Illinois Department of Corrections as a youth supervisor in the Department of Juvenile Justice, according to police.
An autopsy is scheduled for later Monday.
Harrison Area detectives are investigating and said no one was in custody as of 2 a.m. Monday.