A 15-year-old boy critically injured in a shooting Saturday morning near Washington Park has died, according to the Cook County medical examiner.
Shortly before 12:30 a.m., officers discovered two victims with gunshot wounds at the 500 block of East 50th Place in the city’s Grand Boulevard neighborhood, according to Chicago police. The 15-year-old boy was shot in the stomach and sent to Comer Children’s Hospital in critical condition, police said. He later died, and an autopsy is scheduled, according to the medical examiner.
Joseph Jackson, of Auburn Gresham, was also shot in the head and transported to UChicago Medicine, and the medical examiner reports indicate he died just eight minutes after police responded. Jackson’s cause of death was a homicide with multiple gunshot wounds, according to the medical examiner.
Police had no additional details on the shooting as of Sunday.