16-year-old Michael Hickingbottom found shot to death in Woodlawn alley

Sixteen-year-old Michael D. Hickingbottom was fatally shot Monday night in an alley in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side.

Officers responded at 9:47 p.m. to a call of shots fired in the 6400 block of South Langley, according to Chicago Police.

They found the teen in an alley with multiple gunshot wounds to his head and body, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Hickingbottom, who lived in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side, was pronounced dead at the scene at 10:10 p.m., authorities said.

No one was in custody, and Area Central detectives are investigating.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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