Arkansas man robbed, shot dead after asking for directions in Chicago
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Police say an Arkansas man was shot dead in Chicago by a man he stopped to ask for directions.
The shooting occurred early Thursday. The Cook County medical examiner identified the victim as 55-year-old Robert Franklin of Blytheville, Ark.
Police spokesman Officer Jose Estrada says the man Franklin asked for directions climbed in the backseat and robbed Franklin and a friend at gunpoint.
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Estrada says the suspect left the car and shot Franklin four times in the back.
Franklin's friend drove him to a hospital around 4 a.m. Franklin was pronounced dead minutes later.
Estrada says nobody's in custody. Detectives are trying to determine where the shooting occurred.
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Violent crime is down in Chicago compared with last year, when homicides surged past 500 for the first time since 2008.