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A 30-year-old man was shot and killed Sunday night at a playfield in Dixmoor, according to the Cook County Forest Preserve Police.

Officers from several jurisdictions responded to a cookout party near 141st Street and Wood Street at about 10 p.m. The Chicago resident, identified as Roshon S. Holmes by the Cook County medical examiner’s office, was found with multiple gunshot wounds and pronounced dead about an hour later at the University of Chicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, according to Cook County sheriff’s police.

As of Monday afternoon, no one was in custody, the sheriff’s police said.

The Dixmoor Playfield was closed as the sheriff’s office investigated, the forest preserve police said.

The investigation is ongoing, and sheriff’s police ask anyone with information about the shooting is to contact detectives at 708-865-4896.

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