Dec. 17--A 15-year-old boy was shot six times when a car pulled up near his home in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood Tuesday night and people inside opened fire, authorities said.
The boy was hit twice in the head, twice in the chest and twice in the abdomen around 7:50 p.m. Tuesday in the 600 block of East 133rd Street, according to a police report. He was taken to Comer Children's Hospital in critical condition.
The teen is the fourth boy 15 or younger shot in Chicago since Saturday, when 15-year-old Demario Bailey was killed while coming to the aid of his twin brother during a robbery. Two other teens, 13 and 14, were among four shot at an apartment building in the Washington Park neighborhood Monday evening.
In the latest shooting, the boy was walking in a courtyard in the Altgeld Gardens housing development when a silver Ford Taurus with a black rear bumper pulled up and shots were fired, according to the police report.
No one was in custody and police released no descriptions of the suspects.
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