Roberto Rodriguez Jr. killed, man and teen wounded, on the block where he lived in West Lawn

Roberto Rodriguez Jr. was killed and two other people wounded in a West Lawn neighborhood shooting Sunday evening.

The group was outside about 7 p.m. in the 6200 block of South Kenneth when someone walked up and started shooting, according to Chicago Police.

Rodriguez, 21, was shot multiple times, and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 1:10 a.m. Monday, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived on the block where the shooting happened.

A 17-year-old boy and 24-year-old man, both shot in the leg, later showed up at Mount Sinai Hospital. Their conditions were stabilized, police said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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