A 16-year-old boy was among two people killed in a shooting that also left a third person wounded Wednesday morning on the South Side, Chicago police said.
The three people were found shot around 8 am in an apartment building in the 8100 block of South Marshfield Avenue, according to police. Dejavae Christopher, 16, and the other boy, 17, were shot several times.
The two were pronounced dead at the scene and later taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, a spokesperson with the Chicago Fire Department told the Sun-Times.
A 21-year-old man was shot in the arm and taken in stable condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to police.
No one has been arrested, the police said.
Several neighbors and the victims’ family members stood outside the apartment building late Wednesday morning. They sobbed and held each other as the police investigated the crime scene.
Donovan Price, a street pastor who supports crime victims and their families, said the scene inside the apartment was “devastating” and “horrific.”
“There’s a lot going on right now, but we, Chicago, still have our problems to take care of, and our children to love and watch over,” he told the Sun-Times.
A neighbor who lives a block away from the building, who did not want to be identified, told the Sun-Times he heard several gunshots around 4 am
“I dropped to the floor because the shots sounded so close, I thought it happened right outside my window,” he said.
He often walks or drives past the apartment building to take his son to school. He thought the building was abandoned, he said.
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