Octavius Dontrell Lamb DEAD - It took Chicago only 3 hours & 50 minutes to have its first homicide of 2013 - Announcing Chicago's 1st Homicide of 2013... and the winner is....Octavius Dontrell Lamb, 20 - A winning name if I ever heard of one!

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A 20-year-old West Side man was the first Chicago homicide victim of 2013, one of 11 people across the city shot since midnight.

Someone shot Octavius Dontrell Lamb, 20, in the throat in the 700 block of North Noble Street in the West Town neighborhood on the West Side, according to a spokeswoman for the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Lamb, of the 700 block of North Throop Street, was pronounced dead at Northwestern Memorial Hospital at 4:16 a.m., she said.

Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Jose Estrada said the victim was shot in the chest at 3:50 a.m. at the Noble Street address.

No other details of the shooting were immediately available.

Nobody was in custody and Area Central detectives are investigating, Estrada said.

The apparent first shooting in 2013 happened about 1:15 a.m. on the 5100 block of West Madison Street in the South Austin neighborhood on the West Side, police said.

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