A 15-year-old boy died Wednesday night after an unknown shooter struck him multiple times on the South Side, Chicago police said.
The boy was walking outside in the 7700 block of South Vernon Avenue around 8:42 p.m. when he was shot several times by the unknown offender who was traveling in a white Jeep, police said. He was hit multiple times in the leg and also sustained a gunshot wound to the torso.
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He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition and later pronounced dead, police said.
No one was in custody as of late Wednesday, and the investigation is ongoing.