Negro with a very checkered past killed on Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Safe Passage route one of five shot in city violence

A 21-year-old man who was shot to death on a Safe Passage route on the first day back to school for Chicago Public School students was one of five people shot Monday.

The man killed was shot four times in the chest about 8:20 a.m. near Lake Street and Central Avenue in the city's Austin neighborhood, according to authorities.

Paramedics took the man to Loyola University Medical Center in critical condition where he was later pronounced dead, according to authorities. 

Police said the shooting may have been a drive-by.

In addition to that fatal shooting four others were injured in shootings Monday, police said.

At 7:26 p.m. two men were wounded in a shooting on the 1800 block of South Leavitt Street in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood, said Officer Thomas Sweeney, a Chicago police spokesman.

A 36-year-old man was shot in the back and a 33-year-old man was shot in the chest, Sweeney said. The men were taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, said Sweeney.

Earlier, someone shot a 28-year-old man in the left thigh about 12:05 p.m., according to Officer Nicole Trainor, a spokeswoman for the Chicago Police Department.

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