Man fatally shot at Rogers Park lakefront: police

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Chicago police investigate a man shot and killed on a bike path Monday night at Loyola Park in Rogers Park. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

A man was shot and killed Monday night at the lakefront in Rogers Park on the North Side.

At 10:20 p.m., Eliyahu Moscowicz, 24, was walking on the Loyola Park bike path near Lunt Avenue when someone opened fire, according to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. He lived in West Rogers Park.

No one was in custody early Tuesday as detectives conducted a homicide investigation.

On Sunday, a 73-year-old man was found shot to death several blocks north on Sherwin Avenue.

The man was walking his dog when the shooting happened. Police said he may have been robbed.