Man fatally shot, 17-year-old boy wounded in Lawndale

They were standing in a kitchen about 1:50 a.m. in the 2100 block of South Lawndale Avenue when someone fired shots through a window, Chicago police said.

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A man was killed and a teen boy wounded in a shooting June 20, 2022.

A man was killed and a teen boy wounded in a shooting June 20, 2022.

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A man was killed and a teen wounded when someone fired shots into a home Monday in Lawndale.

They were standing in a kitchen about 1:50 a.m. in the 2100 block of South Lawndale Avenue when someone fired shots through a window from a back porch, Chicago police said.

The man, 37-year-old Jacob Willard, was shot in the chest and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

The 17-year-old boy was shot in the leg and taken to the same hospital in serious condition, police said.

No one has been arrested.

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