Man fatally wounded in gas station robbery in Brighton Park

A 36-year-old man was fatally wounded during a robbery overnight at a gas station on the Southwest Side in the Brighton Park neighborhood, Chicago police said.

Shortly before 3 a.m., armed robbers entered a gas station in the 3400 block of South California Avenue and demanded money from the cash register. While fleeing the scene, one of them opened fire, striking the victim to the body, police said.

The unidentified man was pronounced dead at the scene.

No one was in custody and detectives were investigating.