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Teen Gunned Down In South Shore Identified As Jamel Rollins, 17

By Evan F. Moore | September 5, 2016 9:41am

SOUTH SHORE — South Shore shootings left one dead and another wounded since Sunday, police said. 

At 10:30 p.m. Sunday, a 17-year-old was standing in the 7800 block of South Cornell Avenue when he was shot by two men, said Officer Hector Alfaro, a Chicago Police spokesman. 

The teen, who was shot in his back, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Alfaro said. 

He was a documented gang member, police said. 

The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office identified him as Jamel Rollins, of the 5800 block of West Fullerton Avenue.

In non-fatal Monday shootings:

At 4:31 a.m., a 35-year-old man was at a red light in the 7900 block of South South Shore Drive when someone in a dark-colored sedan fired shots at him, said Jose Estrada, a Chicago Police spokeswoman.

The man, who was shot in his knee and foot, drove himself to South Shore Hospital, where his condition wasn't known, but he was listed as "stable," Estrada said. 

No one is in custody for the shootings, police said.

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