Sixteen-year-old Theotis ‘TJ’ Luckett was shot to death early Saturday morning in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.
The teen was shot in the back about 3:45 a.m. in the 3600 block of West Ohio, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead an hour-and-a-half later.
The father of an infant son, Luckett lived in the Pulaski Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side, authorities said. Family members said he was walking home after a visit with his son when he was shot.
The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately known as Area North detectives investigate.
Luckett was the third person shot in the neighborhood in about five hours from late Friday into early Saturday.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire