16-year-old Randle Young killed, 14-year-old boy wounded in West Englewood shooting

Sixteen-year-old Randle Young was killed and a 14-year-old boy was wounded in a West Englewood neighborhood shooting Monday night.

Two teenage boys were shot, one fatally, late Monday in the 7100 block of South Laflin. | Network Video Productions

Two teenage boys were shot, one fatally, late Monday in the 7100 block of South Laflin. | Network Video Productions


Young and the other boy were walking eastbound in an alley in the 7100 block of South Laflin about 9:35 p.m. when a male suspect walked up and shot them, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Young suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 10:55 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the 1300 block of West 73rd Street.

The younger boy suffered a graze wound to the buttocks, and was taken to Saint Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center, where his condition stabilized.

Young was one of four people fatally shot in CHicago on Monday.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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