17-year-old Kaveon WIlson killed, man critically injured when gunmen get out of SUV and open fire in South Deering

Seventeen-year-old Kaveon D. Anthoni Walton was killed and a 22-year-old man wounded in a shooting Tuesday afternoon in the South Deering neighborhood on the Far South Side.

They were walking west on 95th Street at 12:21 p.m. when two masked males got out of a black SUV heading south on Yates Avenue.

The men then opened fire before getting back into the SUV and heading east on 95th Street, Chicago Police said.

Walton, who lived a few blocks away, was shot multiple times in the chest, right leg and right arm, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 1:32 p.m.

The 22-year-old was also shot repeatedly, and was taken in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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