Another Conehead Corpse

His next mental breakdown is long overdue:

• A man was found fatally shot near a parked pickup truck in Brighton Park early Thursday, and indications are he may have been there for more than two hours before being discovered by a passerby.

  The shooting occurred in the 3100 block of West 39th Place, an area that was monitored around the clock by the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection network until Mayor Brandon Johnson ended the program in September 2024, despite opposition from the police superintendent and a City Council supermajority.

  Chicago police said officers responded to a call of a person down at approximately 4:15 a.m. and found the man, who remained a “John Doe” as of midmorning, lying between a pickup truck and some scaffolding. He had suffered gunshot wounds to the head and body and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Twenty-nine shell casings were located nearby, but only two calls came in about it. But there's no way of telling if those twenty-nine were from this shooting or stacked up from three or four other shootings.