16-year-old Jaylen Howard shot to death in Humboldt Park

Sixteen-year-old boy Jaylen Howard died after being shot multiple times Monday afternoon in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.

The shooting happened about 4:45 p.m. in the 1200 block of North Pulaski, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Howard was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 5:25 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 1300 block of North Massasoit. An autopsy showed he died of multiple gunshot wounds.

The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately known, police said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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