CHICAGO (WLS) — A 13-year-old boy was shot and killed in a park on the city’s North Side on Friday night, Chicago officials said.
The shooting happened before 10 p.m. at Lerner Park in the West Ridge neighborhood’s 7000 block of North Sacramento Avenue, police said. Witnesses said they heard a loud pop, followed by multiple people running away.
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Police found a male victim on a park bench with a gunshot wound to the head. He was taken to the St. Francis Hospital in critical condition, but he later died.
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The medical examiner’s office identified him as Lavel Winslow.
Police are searching for the gunman and there’s no word on any arrests.
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