A teenage boy has succumbed to his injuries two weeks after being shot on Chicago's South Side, marking yet another instance of the city's relentless gun violence epidemic.
Michael Jones, 15, was gunned down in broad daylight, on March 27, while on the 800 block of West 52nd Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. According to the Chicago Tribune, the assailants approached the teenager shortly after 11:35 a.m. and, opened fire, striking him in the chest and arms. Police reported he was critically injured and immediately transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center.
The Cook County medical examiner's office confirmed, that the boy was pronounced dead at the hospital on Thursday, at 8:44 p.m., almost two weeks after the shooting took his life. An autopsy completed Saturday concluded that Jones died from complications connected to the gunshot wounds and officials have declared his death a homicide. This detail came from a statement obtained by the Chicago Tribune in their reporting on the tragedy.
No suspects have been placed behind bars in relation to the tragic event as of now, police conveyed no updates on the active investigation, according to ABC7 Chicago. The community and authorities are left grappling with the consequences of a young life cut short, by the city's unabating struggle with gun violence.
