A teenage boy was killed and a man was wounded Monday in a shooting in Gresham on the South Side, according to Chicago police.
The pair were outside about 6:45 p.m. in the 7900 block of South Loomis Boulevard when someone approached them and opened fire, police said.
The boy, 17, was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The man, 40, was struck in the back and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition.
Police initially said the deceased was a 23-year-old man, but later revealed that the boy was 17. The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not released details about his death.
No one is in custody as Area South detectives investigate.
