Fifteen-year-old Clavonte Eubanks died after being shot early Saturday in a park in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood on the Far South Side where he lived, according to Chicago Police.
A 15-year-old boy was shot early Saturday in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood on the Far South Side. | NVP video
At 3:27 a.m., Eubanks was walking through a park in the 2100 block of East 97th Street when he heard gunshots and felt pain in his chest, police said. He then ran to a home in the 2200 block of East 97th Street, where emergency crews were called.
The boy suffered a gunshot wound to the upper-right chest and was taken by emergency crews to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 4:19 a.m., police said. He lived in the same neighborhood where he was shot.
No one was in custody as of Sunday afternoon as Area South detectives investigate.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire