Teen killed, two others injured in Chicago Lawn shooting

SHARE Teen killed, two others injured in Chicago Lawn shooting
Relatives of a shooting victim hug at the scene near 64th Street and Kedzie. | Eric Clark / Sun-Times Media

Relatives of a shooting victim hug at the scene near 64th Street and Kedzie. | Eric Clark / Sun-Times Media

A teenage boy was killed and two others were hurt in a Chicago Lawn neighborhood shooting on the Southwest Side Friday afternoon.

Jahakel Clark and two other boys, ages 14 and 16, were shot in the 3100 block of West 64th Street about 3:30 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Clark, of the 6500 block of South Fairfield, was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. Police said Clark was 16 years old, while the medical examiner’s office said he was 15.

Another boy, 14, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn with a gunshot wound to the leg. His condition had stabilized, police said.

A third boy, 16, suffered a graze wound to his hand. He was treated at Holy Cross Hospital and later released.

The Latest
The new service, one train in each direction, overlaps the current Hiawatha service between Chicago and Milwaukee and Empire Builder service between Chicago and St. Paul, Minnesota.
The default speed limit on Chicago side streets is 30 mph, but lowering it to 25 mph could “go a really long way” toward reducing traffic deaths, which have skyrocketed since the start of the pandemic, city Department of Transportation officials said.
“I remember coming out of my apartment one day and spotting Chicago cops dragging young protestors out of one section of Lincoln Park and shoving them into trucks, while nearby poet Allen Ginsberg was chanting in a circle of peaceful protesters not far away from the radical Abby Hoffman,” remembers Dan Webb, who later became a U.S. attorney.
Concerts by 21 Savage, New Kids on the Block, Vampire Weekend are among the shows available through the promotion.