CHICAGO — A 17-year-old was shot dead during an attempted carjacking in Austin on Monday night, police said.
At 8:34 p.m., the teen had just got out of a car and was going into a home in the 500 block of South Lockwood Avenue when an armed man demanded his car keys, police said.
The teen struggled with the carjacker and the gun went off, hitting the boy, police said. The shooter then ran away, police said.
The boy was hit in his chest and arm and was taken in serious condition to Stroger Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
No one was in custody.
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