Gerwancey Rambus fatally shot while sitting in vehicle in North Lawndale

A man shot to death Wednesday morning in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side has been identified as Gerwancey Rambus.

The 40-year-old was sitting in a vehicle in the 1100 block of South Richmond at 11:27 a.m. when someone approached and fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Rambus was shot multiple times in the chest, and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:43 a.m., authorities said. He lived about two blocks away in the 1100 block of South Mozart.

--Chicago Sun-Times Wire