A man who died about three hours after being shot early Sunday in the West Ridge neighborhood on the Northwest Side has been identified as 28-year-old Abimbola "Bim Diggity" Sheleru.
Officers called about 4:30 a.m. to the 2400 block of West Devon discovered Sheleru lying in an alley, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Sheleru, who lived less than a mile away in the 6100 block of North Hermitage in Edgewater, was shot multiple times in the back. He was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead at 7:43 a.m., authorities said.
The son of a pastor, Sheleru, known to friends as Bim Diggity, was the father of two children.
--Chicago Sun-Times Wire