17-year-old Davion Toney killed, two others wounded when gunmen attack group in Humboldt Park

Seventeen-year-old Davion Toney was slain and two other people were wounded in a Humboldt Park neighborhood shooting Thursday evening on the West Side.

About 6:15 p.m., the three were standing outside in the 1100 block of North Hamlin Avenue when a dark-colored car pulled up, according to Chicago Police.

Two people got out and the vehicle and started shooting at the group.

Toney was shot in the head, and died at Mount Sinai Hospital at 7 p.m., authorities said. He lived just a few blocks away in same the neighborhood, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

An autopsy Friday found he died of multiple gunshot wounds, the medical examiner’s office said.

A 24-year-old man shot in the left leg and side was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, along with a 33-year-old woman in good condition with an ankle wound, police said.

No one was in custody for the shooting as of Friday morning.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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