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police Sunday were continuing their search for the person who shot a convicted sex offender and struck him with a vehicle near a lounge in the city’s Chatham neighborhood.
An autopsy Sunday showed that the man — identified as Howard Hodges, 34 — died from injuries caused by the vehicle, according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Two other men also were shot in the incident, which happened near 83rd Street and Vincennes Avenue. Those victims did not suffer life-threatening injuries, police said.
At about 1:58 a.m. Sunday, police responded to shots fired in the 8100 block of South Vincennes Avenue, said Chicago Police Officer Laura Kubiak. About two blocks south, near 83rd and Vincennes, they found Hodges lying in the street; he appeared to have been struck by a car. Police didn’t have a description of the vehicle, Kubiak said.
Paramedics arrived and found that Hodges had been shot in the abdomen. He was pronounced dead on the scene, police said.
When police interviewed the two other men at St. Bernard Hospital, they learned that they were standing in the 8200 block of South Vincennes when they heard gunshots and were hit, one man in a leg, the other in a shoulder, Kubiak said.
They told police Hodges was shot and ran into the street, where he was struck by an unknown vehicle, police said.
Court records show that Hodges, of the 300 block of East Indiana Street in Park Forest, had a long criminal history with several felony convictions including a 1997 conviction for aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon. In 2003, he was acquitted of attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery.
Hodges, who had at least four aliases, was listed as compliant on the state’s sex offender registry, though he had previously violated registry rules, records show.
No arrests had been made late Sunday, police said.
–Deanese Williams-Harris, Andrew L. Wang and William Lee
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