A teenage boy who was shot to death Friday morning in the West Side Austin neighborhood has been identified as Corey Martin.
The 17-year-old was walking on the street in the 600 block of North Long at 8:41 a.m. when someone approached, showed a gun and started shooting, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Martin was shot multiple times and ran behind a nearby property, where he collapsed, authorities said.
Martin, who lived a block north in the 700 block of North Long, was found there and pronounced dead at 9:55 a.m., authorities said.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire