Roosevelt football player shot, killed during attempted carjacking

By Staff Report

A 17-year-old boy was killed in a South Austin neighborhood shooting Monday night on the West Side.

Jeremiah Parker had just gotten out of his vehicle about 8:30 p.m. and was entering a home in the 500 block of South Lockwood when an armed male in a black hoodie confronted him and demanded his car keys, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

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