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Jefferson Park Shooting Wounds 15-Year-Old

By Kelly Bauer | August 27, 2017 10:52am

CHICAGO — A 15-year-old boy was shot and wounded in Jefferson Park on Saturday night, police said.

At 11:30 p.m.,the boy was sitting inside a car in the 6300 block of West Montrose Avenue when someone in a mask walked up to him and fired shots, police said.

The boy was hit in his right hip and he was taken to Community First Hospital, where his condition was not available but he was listed as "stable," police said.

The boy is a documented gang member, a police source said.

No one was in custody.