Fenger High School honor student Willie Woodus was shot and killed Friday evening while walking home from school in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.
Just after 5 p.m., the 15-year-old was walking in an alley in the 11400 block of South Stewart when a gray Pontiac drove by and someone inside it opened fire, hitting him in the head, chest and abdomen, Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
Police say the boy was shot five times.
Woodus was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 6:07 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side.
No one was in custody as Area South detectives investigate.
The boy had been living in Hammond, Indiana, but recently moved back to Chicago to attend school, where he was a freshman honor student at Fenger.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire