A man who barricaded himself inside a Northwest Side residence is dead, police said.
Lisa Stigall, a spokeswoman for the Wheat Ridge, Colo., police department, said investigators "have reason to believe" that the man was Tyler James Martin, 36, a man who has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend Tuesday night and was on the run from authorities. Chicago police, however, have not confirmed that it is the same man who was at the Kimball address, she said. Hostage-barricade-terrorist incident team officers entered the residence in the 2300 block of North Kimball Avenue at about 7:30 p.m. and found a man dead of a gunshot wound, she said. Officials found the green Mercury Mystique with a Colorado license plate that they believe Martin was driving parked down the street from the home, and the residence where the barricade occurred belongs to a relative, Stigall said. -- Posted By Breaking News to Break News at 2/21/2009 04:19:00 AM
