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Teen Charged In Christian Bandemer Shooting After Snapchat Confession

By  Kelly Bauer and Ed Komenda | June 3, 2016 12:51pm | Updated on June 6, 2016 7:29am

 A 16-year-old was shot and killed in Bridgeport, police said.
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CHICAGO — Police announced charges Sunday for a boy who allegedly killed 16-year-old Christian Bandemer in Bridgeport Friday morning.

At 11:35 a.m., the teen was in the 3500 block of South Parnell Avenue when he was shot in his chest, said Officer Bari Lemmon, a Chicago Police spokeswoman.

The teen was pronounced dead at the scene.

The teen had been playing with a shotgun with a friend when the gun accidentally discharged and fatally hit the boy in his chest, a source said. Police found the shotgun in the weeds of a lawn nearby the teen's home. 

The teen was identified as Christian Bandemer, of the 900 block of West 36th Street, in Cook County Medical Examiner's Office records. Bandemer was pronounced dead at 11:59 a.m. An autopsy showed he died of a gunshot wound to his chest in a homicide.

Bandemer's friend, Anthony Mendoza, 17, has been charged in the fatal shooting, according to the Chicago Tribune. 

Mendoza appeared in court Sunday, where prosecutors said he confessed to the murder in a Snapchat video he took from the back of a police squad car following his arrest, the Tribune  reported.

According to reports, Mendoza and Bandemer were with another teen who left the two inside a house when the gun went off, killing Bandemer.

Mendoza is being held on $250,000 bond, according to reports.

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