A 17-year-old boy was shot in the face and killed late Saturday while riding in a car on Chicago’s North Side, according to police. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
Police say
Chicago police said the shooting happened around 10:30 p.m. Saturday in the 6100 block of North Kimball Avenue. The teen was riding in a vehicle when someone in a red car pulled up and fired into it, striking him in the face.
He was taken to St. Francis Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. No one was in custody, and Area Five detectives were investigating, according to ABC7 Chicago.
City context
The killing comes as citywide shooting and homicide numbers have moved lower compared with recent peak years, though violence remains heavily concentrated in specific neighborhoods. The University of Chicago Crime Lab's Violence Reduction Dashboard tracks those trends and offers near real-time data used by researchers and city officials.
Community violence intervention work and changes to detective resources have been cited in the Crime Lab’s analysis as possible factors behind recent declines, even as individual tragedies like Saturday night’s shooting continue to occur, per the University of Chicago Crime Lab.
What authorities are asking
Police are asking anyone with information or video of the incident to contact Area Five detectives. Investigators say they are canvassing the neighborhood and reviewing available surveillance footage.
The outlet that first reported the shooting noted there were no arrests at the time of its report and that detectives were continuing the investigation, according to ABC7 Chicago.
