Overview
- Officers responded around 9:39 p.m. Monday to the 1200 block of E. Prairie Brook Drive for reports of a crash in a residential area.
- A 20-year-old man was found in the driver’s seat of a black Audi with a gunshot wound, was taken to a hospital, and was pronounced dead.
- The vehicle had struck multiple parked cars and a garbage dumpster before coming to a stop, according to initial reports.
- North Rand Road between Route 53 and Dundee Road was closed into the Tuesday morning commute, and the neighborhood was blocked off for the investigation.
- The Palatine Police Department is leading a death investigation with assistance from the Major Case Assistance Team, and asks anyone with information to call 847-359-9000.