[Chicago Tribune] A teen was shot to death and at least 14 other people, including a 12-year-old boy, were maimed in shootings between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning.The most recent shooting was a homicide that happened about 4:10 a.m. Saturday in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, and the boy killed was the seventh person shot in that area in the West Garfield Park and Lawndale neighborhoods on the West Side.
The 16-year-old boy was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital. Police had a difficult time finding the boy because the 911 caller gave a location of Jackson Boulevard and Pulaski Road before the boy was found in an alley about half a block west of Pulaski just north of the boulevard.
The boy was able to give his name and said, "Please don't let me die," according to police.
About 90 minutes earlier, three people were shot near the intersection of Lexington and Springfield avenues south of the Eisenhower Expressway in Lawndale, just blocks from where the teen was killed Saturday morning.