Pierre Johnson was found shot to death Tuesday morning in the Brainerd neighborhood on the South Side.
Friends identified the victim as Pierre Johnson.
Officers responding to a call of a person shot about 6 a.m. in the 9000 block of South Aberdeen found the 27-year-old on the ground, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Island, of the 2400 block of West 60th Street, had suffered a gunshot wound to the head, and was dead at the scene, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.
Area South detectives are conducting a homicide investigation.
--Chicago Sun-Times Wire