15-year-old boy shot dead in Chicago Heights

A 15-year-old boy was shot to death late Saturday in south suburban Chicago Heights.

About 10:30 p.m., officers responding to a call of a person down behind an abandoned house in the 600 block of Andover Street found Timothy Boyd unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds, according to Chicago Heights police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Emergency crews were unable to revive him, and he was pronounced dead at the scene at 10:57 p.m., authorities said. Boyd lived nearby in the 600 block of Brookline Street in Chicago Heights.

Anyone with information on the shooting should call detectives at (708) 756-6422.