A 15-year-old boy was shot twice in the head Tuesday afternoon while walking home from school on Chicago’s South Side, according to the Chicago Fire Department.
Around 3:15 p.m., the teen was near a sidewalk in the 3300 block of S. Prairie Ave. in theThe teen was struck in the head and transported to Comer Children’s Hospital initially in critical condition, police said. He was later pronounced dead.
A woman who works at a coffee shop near the shooting said the area is a "friendly neighborhood" but gun violence is "just getting out of hand and something has to give. And kids can’t walk home from school because people are acting crazy. The boy was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition. A friend said the boy was alert when he was placed into the ambulance.
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