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Man beaten to death with baseball bat in road rage incident on South Side of Chicago

A man was beaten to death with a baseball bat after a road rage incident on Friday afternoon in the Fuller Park neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago.

Police said, around 3:45 p.m., a 26-year-old man was involved in a road rage incident in the 5400 block of South Wells Street, parallel to the Dan Ryan Expressway.

Another man beat the victim with a baseball bat and fled the scene in an SUV.

The victim was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. He was identified as 26-year-old Luis Acalderon.

No one was in custody Friday evening. Area 1 detectives were investigating.

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