16-year-old Kahari Stovall shot to death, man wounded while walking out of store in North Lawndale

Sixteen-year-old Kahari Stovall was killed and a 19-year-old man wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.

They were walking out of a store in the 1300 block of South Lawndale at 1:06 p.m. when they heard shots, according to Chicago Police.

The boy was shot in the lower back and abdomen; and the man was shot in the knee, police said.

Both were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where Stovall was pronounced dead at 3:40 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the South Shore neighborhood.

The man was listed in good condition, police said.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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