A 19-year-old man was found fatally shot in an alley in Chicago's Belmont Cragin neighborhood near the 2500 block of North Monitor Avenue, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. No one was in custody as the investigation continued into what led to the shooting.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the shooting occurred Tuesday evening. The Sun-Times, citing police, said the teen suffered a single gunshot wound to his back, though Citizen separately reported that the victim had been shot in the left shoulder — a discrepancy that remains unresolved between the two accounts.
Citizen also reported additional details from the scene, including that police located the shooting victim in an alley between Marmora and Monitor avenues. The outlet said officers were giving the teen chest compressions while they waited for an ambulance to arrive, and that other officers were canvassing the alley for spent shell casings following a report of shots fired in the area.
Investigation Remains Open With No Arrests
As of the latest reporting, the investigation remained underway and no one had been arrested in connection with the shooting. Police have not released information about a possible motive.
Shooting Adds to a Year of Citywide Homicide Tracking
The Belmont Cragin shooting comes as Chicago's homicide count for 2026 stood at 363 people slain through Nov. 7, according to a tracker maintained by the Chicago Tribune. The Austin neighborhood recorded the most homicides citywide so far this year, with 28, per the same tracker.
No further updates on the Belmont Cragin case had been released at the time of this report. Hoodline will update this story as more information becomes available.
