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Austin Shooting Leaves 16-Year-Old Boy Dead, Police Say

By Evan F. Moore | February 3, 2016 11:43am
 The shooting happened by Ferdinand and Lavergne, police said. 
The shooting happened by Ferdinand and Lavergne, police said. 
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AUSTIN — A 16-year-old boy died Wednesday morning after he was shot in his face in Austin, police said. 

At 8 a.m., the teen was walking in the 5000 block of West Ferdinand Street when he was shot, said Officer Ana Pacheco, a Chicago police spokeswoman.

Martell Sanders-Anderson, of the 5000 block of West Ohio Street, was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 8:53 a.m., according to the Cook County Examiner's office.

No one is custody, Pacheco said.

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