A 15-year-old boy found dead Monday in West Chesterfield on the South Side had shot himself, the Cook County medical examiner’s office has ruled.
He was found unresponsive about 7:50 a.m. with a gunshot wound to his face in an alley in the 9400 block of South Prairie Avenue, Chicago police said.
The teen was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
An autopsy released Tuesday ruled the boy’s death a suicide, medical examiner’s office said. He lived in the same block where he was shot.