15-Year-Old Shot in Austin Early Sunday, Chicago Police Say
A 15-year-old was shot in the Austin neighborhood just before 1 a.m. Sunday, according to Chicago police. Police have not yet released the teen's condition or the block where it happened.
A 15-year-old was shot in the Austin neighborhood on Chicago's West Side just before 1 a.m. Sunday, according to Chicago police, in a report carried by ABC 7 Chicago. That is the confirmed outline of the shooting as of Sunday morning: a teenage victim, the Austin neighborhood, and a time just before 1 a.m.
Chicago police have not yet released the details that would complete the picture — the block where the shooting happened, the teen's condition, where the teen was taken for treatment, whether anyone is in custody, or what led up to the gunfire. Chicago Windy City News is holding those details until police release them officially, and this story will be updated when they do. No victim name is being reported; police have not released one.
It is the second shooting involving a 15-year-old in Chicago this weekend. Early Saturday, a 15-year-old boy was critically wounded in the stomach and a 19-year-old man was shot in the head in the 500 block of East 50th Place in Washington Park, a shooting this station covered as it developed. Police have not said the two shootings are connected, and nothing in the official reporting read Sunday morning links them.
