Crime & Safety
Teens Dies Day After Shooting In Chicago's Canaryville Neighborhood
The 12-year-old boy was shot in the chest, the 15-year-old boy in the hip.
Updated on: August 29, 2025 / 7:52 AM CDT
A 15-year-old boy has died after a shooting that also left a 12-year-old critically wounded in Chicago's Canaryville neighborhood on Thursday afternoon.
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At 3:45 p.m., the boys were in a vacant lot behind the 600 block of West 47th Street, between Union Avenue and Wallace Street, when they got into a fight with an unknown number of people, police said.
At least one of the people fighting the boys fired shots.
