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A man was shot in the torso in the South Lawndale neighborhood tonight, according to police.

Police found a man in his 20s in an alley on the 2800 block of West 25th Street.

Details were sketchy, but police said the shooting occurred about 6:25 p.m. The man was taken to Mt Sinai Hospital.

As of 10 p.m., the man was undergoing surgery and was in critical condition, police said.

No one was in custody as of about 7:50 p.m., according a spokesman at Police News Affairs.

--Caroline K. Smith

A death investigation was underway this evening after an unidentified man's body was found, apparently burned, at a Southwest Side residence, officials said.

Chicago police received a call about an incident at the residence about 3 p.m. in the 5000 block of South Talman Avenue in the Gage Park neighborhood.

A woman who lives next door to where the man's body was found said she saw police take three people who lived in that residence--two men and a woman--away from the residence in a squad car.

She said she did not know them, but said the apparent victim owned that residence. She said she did not know the victim's name.

"It seemed like a fire. There was a lot of smoke," the neighbor, 23-year-old Carmen Zavala, said about 9:20 p.m. "The body's still inside. They haven't taken him out."

Zavala said police told her the body was in the basement.

Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli could not confirm whether anyone was in custody tonigh...