Scene where Adam Lara was shot / Photo by Alex Wroblewski
A 16-year-old boy was killed and his father critically injured after gunfire erupted following an argument in a Hermosa neighborhood restaurant Monday afternoon.
Adam Lara and his 49-year-old father were shot inside a vehicle about 3:30 p.m. in the 2800 block of North Kenneth Avenue, police said.
Just before the shooting, Adam and his father got into an argument with two people at a nearby restaurant, police said. The father and son left and went back to their car, but the people they were arguing with followed and opened fire.
Adam, of the 4000 block of North Central Park Avenue, was shot in the head and died about two hours later at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, authorities said.
His father was shot in the back and was initially hospitalized in critical condition, police said.
After the shooting, the suspects ran westbound down an alley, police said.
Nobody has been charged for the murder.
Area North detectives are investigating.