SOUTH CHICAGO — A 15-year-old boy died after being shot in his chest on the Southeast Side late Tuesday night, police said.
Around 10:15 p.m., the boy was sitting in the front seat of a car at the intersection of 89th Street and Exchange Avenue when a white car pulled up and someone inside fired shots, according to Officer Laura Amezaga, a Chicago Police spokeswoman.
Fabian Lavinder was taken to Trinity Hospital with a gunshot wound in his chest and was later pronounced dead, Amezaga said.
Lavinder was shot dead about two blocks from his home and a block from Bowen High School, where the 15-year-old was a freshman, according to students and the boy's neighbors.
He lived in the 8700 block of South Muskegon Avenue, a quiet, diverse block. No one was home at the boy's house for much of Wednesday afternoon. An unmarked police car sat outside the home for hours Wednesday.
A neighbor walked by and said she didn't know when the family would come back. The woman, who identified herself as a neighbor of Fabian's, said her son was friends with the boy and that they were distraught at the news.
"It's bull----. What is happening with these kids?" she said. "The violence — I can't even speak on it right now."
A number of officers were on hand for Bowen's dismissal Wednesday. Students leaving the school described Fabian as a quiet and stylish kid with a lot of friends, but one student said those friends were a bad influence on Fabian, or vice versa.
"I used to see him always on the corner, out in the streets," said the student, a freshman at Bowen. "He should've never been in the streets."
No one is in custody for the killing, police said.
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