17-year-old Jamel Rollins shot to death in South Shore

Seventeen-year-old Jamel Rollins was shot Sunday night in the South Shore neighborhood and died about an hour later at a hospital.

The boy was standing outside about 10:30 p.m. in the 7800 block of South Cornell when two males walked up and opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Rollins, of the 5800 block of West Fullerton, was shot in the back and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:46 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

An autopsy found he died of multiple gunshot wounds.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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