Englewood shootings: 14-year-boy, man shot minutes apart in separate incidents

The boy was walking on a sidewalk about 9:13 a.m. in the 100 block of West 69th Street when a black four-door car drove by and someone inside fired shots.

By David Struett

A teen boy was fatally shot Aug. 14, 2022, in the Golden Gate neighborhood. — A teen and a man were shot in separate shootings Jan. 17, 2020, in Englewood.

A man was killed in a shooting Friday morning in Englewood within minutes of a separate shooting the the South Side neighborhood that seriously wounded a 14-year-old boy.

Officers responded to a call of gunfire about 8:55 a.m. and found the 49-year-old man on a sidewalk in the 5800 block of South Aberdeen Street, Chicago police said.

Willie James Brownlee was taken in critical condition to the University of Chicago Medical Center with a gunshot wound to his groin, but died a day later, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

An autopsy conducted confirmed he died of his gunshot wounds, the medical examiner’s office said. His death has been ruled a homicide.

Minutes later, a boy was walking on a sidewalk about 9:13 a.m. in the 100 block of West 69th Street when a black four-door car drove by and someone inside fired shots, police said.

He was struck in the leg and taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, police said. His condition was serious, but had stabilized.

Minutes earlier, a man was shot in the groin several blocks north.

No arrests have been made.

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