Chicago police have announced charges against a man they say fled to South America during an investigation into a 2004 Gold Coast murder.

David Barklow was extradited to Chicago from Peru on Friday, police said in a news release. He’s charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of Kent Projansky.

Projansky, 40, was found dead in December 2004 inside his 30th-floor apartment in the Elm Street Plaza building in the Gold Coast.

He died of multiple gunshot wounds and there were no signs of forced entry, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said at the time.

Days after the death, police responded to a report of a duffel bag found inside a garbage can on the Northwest side that contained bloody clothes and a gun, which was later linked to the ballistic evidence recovered fr

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