CHICAGO (STMW) – A 15-year-old boy was killed Sunday afternoon in a West Pullman neighborhood shooting on the Far South Side.
The boy suffered gunshot wounds to the chest and under the arm about 3:40 p.m. in the 200 block of West 116th Street, police said.
He was taken in to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 4:30 p.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. His name was withheld Sunday evening pending notification of his family.
Area South detectives are conducting a homicide investigation.
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