A young man was fatally shot in his vehicle Sunday night in the heart of Uptown by a would-be robber, authorities said.
No arrests have been announced in what is the city's 74th homicide of the year.
The killing is part of the city's chronic surge in violent crime, particularly shootings, since the May 25 death of George Floyd in police custody and the civil unrest that followed.
According to police:
Officers responded at 8 p.m. to the shooting at S. Bryant Avenue and W. Lake Street, where a man in his late teens had been shot. They provided emergency medical treatment before he was taken by ambulance to HCMC, where he died several hours later. His identity has yet to be released.
The victim and another person were in a car earlier in the evening near Lagoon and S. Fremont avenues, about a third of a mile from where police first found him, when a suspect got in the back seat with the intent of robbing the occupants.
"During the course of this encounter, a shot was fired striking the victim," a police statement read.
The gunman ran from the scene, and the driver left as well before stopping at Lake and Bryant to notify police.