http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/demetrius-wooten/Latest news about Demetrius Wootenen-usThu, 13 Aug 2015 12:07:01 -0500http://homicides.suntimes.com/2015/08/13/18-year-old-demetrius-wooten-dies-three-days-after-being-shot-in-head-in-lawndale/<p><iframe src="http://homicides.suntimes.com/api/v1/homicides/1166.html" width="100%" height="350" frameborder=0></iframe><br /> <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/demetrius-wooten/">Demetrius Wooten</a> was walking down the street early Sunday in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood when he was shot in the head early Sunday. He died at a hospital on Wednesday.</p> <p>About 12:15 a.m. Sunday, the 18-year-old Wooten was walking in the 1200 block of South St. Louis when someone walked out of a gangway and opened fire, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.</p> <p>He was struck in the head and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:07 a.m. Wednesday, authorities said.</p> <p>Wooten lived in the 2700 block of West 15th Street, the medical examiner’s office said.<br /> <em><br /> —Chicago Sun-Times Wire</em></p> Jeff MayesThu, 13 Aug 2015 12:07:01 -0500http://homicides.suntimes.com/2015/08/13/18-year-old-demetrius-wooten-dies-three-days-after-being-shot-in-head-in-lawndale/Demetrius Wooten