A man who was found dead Saturday afternoon in a vacant lot in the Austin neighborhood had been shot to death in a homicide, authorities determined following an autopsy.
The man found in the 5400 block of West Ohio Street was identified as Antoine D. Watkins, 22, of the 600 block of North Long Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He died from multiple gunshot wounds in a homicide, the office determined Sunday.
Officers responded about 12:15 p.m. Saturday to a call of a person down in the 5400 block of West Ohio Street. When they arrived, they discovered an unresponsive man lying facedown, police said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:33 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.
Watkins’ death marked the first homicide in six days in Chicago, the longest stretch without a criminal homicide in the city since at least Dec. 3 to 9, 2012, according to Tribune analysis of city homicide data.
Authorities have not yet ruled on the cause and manner of death of a woman whose body was found in a garbage container Friday afternoon, although authorities said Friday she may have suffered from head trauma. If her death is found to have been a homicide, the city will have gone five days without a homicide for the first time since March 11 to 15, 2015, according to Tribune data.
