Excerpts from ABC7Chicago.com:

Police are investigating after a business owner was found dead with a gunshot wound inside his burning auto repair shop on Chicago’s South Side. Relatives identified the victim as 56-year-old Ed McArthur Jr., the owner of McArthur Auto Clinic.

Firefighters made the gruesome discovery just after 6:30 a.m. while putting out a building fire at 80th and Stony Island Avenue.

The man’s body was found on the second floor of the body shop. Relatives said police at the scene told them he had been shot in the head and that a weapon was found lying next to him.

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