CHICAGO — A 14-year-old boy was fatally shot in Austin Sunday afternoon.
The boy was standing in the 1100 block of North LeClaire Avenue when two men approached him at 2:52 p.m. One of them was carrying a gun and opened fire, striking the boy in the back.
He was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, said Officer Janel Sedevic, a Chicago police spokeswoman.
Marcus McCarthy, who lived on the block where he was shot, was pronounced dead at 3:56 p.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.
No one is in custody for the shooting, Sedevic said.
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