18-year-old Demetrius Wooten dies three days after being shot in head in Lawndale


Demetrius Wooten was walking down the street early Sunday in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood when he was shot in the head early Sunday. He died at a hospital on Wednesday.

About 12:15 a.m. Sunday, the 18-year-old Wooten was walking in the 1200 block of South St. Louis when someone walked out of a gangway and opened fire, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was struck in the head and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:07 a.m. Wednesday, authorities said.

Wooten lived in the 2700 block of West 15th Street, the medical examiner’s office said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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