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Victim of Rolling Meadows shooting identified as Palatine man

The Cook County medical examiner's office on Monday determined the death of a Palatine man found early Sunday in Rolling Meadows to be a homicide.

An autopsy showed the man - identified Monday night as 39-year-old Marco Guerrero-Lopez - died from a gunshot wound to the torso, the medical examiner's office said.

Officers discovered the man suffering from the gunshot wound about 5 a.m. Sunday while responding to reports of shots fired on the 2000 block of Kirchoff Road on the city's eastern border.

Guerrero-Lopez was taken to nearby Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, where he was pronounced dead at 5:35 a.m., authorities said.

For a time Sunday, police tape surrounded Gateway Park, on the northwest corner of Kirchoff and Wilke roads, and a police mobile command unit vehicle was parked in the driveway of an adjacent home.

Police said the shooting appears to be an isolated event.

Man shot dead in Rolling Meadows; persons of interest being questioned

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