CHICAGO — A shooting in Humboldt Park killed Elijah Jones, 17, and wounded a 21-year-old woman Tuesday afternoon, officials said.
At 12:04 p.m., the teen and woman were outside in the 1000 block of North Harding Avenue when a man walked up from a nearby lot and began firing, police said.
The teen was hit in his chest and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said. Jones was pronounced dead at 12:30 p.m., and an autopsy showed he died of a gunshot wound in his torso in a homicide, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.
The woman was hit and taken to Norwegian American Hospital in good condition.
No further information was immediately available.
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