A 16-year-old boy was shot dead as he waited at a red light Sunday night in the Pilsen neighborhood on the Lower West Side, police said.
He was sitting in the driver’s seat at 9:45 p.m. in the 2000 block of South Canalport Avenue when a vehicle pulled up and someone inside fired shots, according to Chicago police.
The boy was shot in the head, and his vehicle careened into a wall underneath the Dan Ryan Expressway, police said.
He was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital, where he died Monday morning, police said.
At least four shell casings were scattered around his gray car near the intersection of Emerald and Canalport as officers investigated the scene. The vehicle’s windshield wipers were still swiping as police flashlights danced across the window.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not confirmed the death, and no one is in custody.
