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Teenager charged in fatal West Garfield Park shooting

By  Sun-Times Wire
   
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Keshawn Freeman, 17, has been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm in a June 18 shooting on the West Side that left 18-year-old Latrell McMahon dead and a 19-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his left leg.

Freeman was ordered held Saturday on $200,000 bail, according to court records.

The shooting happened in the first block of South Springfield Avenue in West Garfield Park.

McMahon, shot in the abdomen, was dead at the scene, authorities said. He lived in the 1800 block of South Fairfield Avenue.

The other man was treated at Mount Sinai Hospital.

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