Someone outside opened fire into a building, hitting a 16-year-old boy and killing him early Thursday in Chicago Lawn on the Southwest Side.
It happened in the 6500 block of South Talman Avenue around 1:30 a.m., and the boy, identified by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as Javier Jose Torres, suffered multiple gunshot wounds, Chicago police said.
Torres, of the 4500 block of South Fairfield Avenue, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was pronounced dead, police said.
No one was in custody.
Area 2 detectives are investigating.
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