Police seek silver Kia Soul in slayings of boy, 14, and man, 65 in Chicago Lawn neighborhood

The teen and the man were shot just before 4:30 p.m. in the 3500 block of West 61st Place when a silver Kia pulled up and someone inside opened fire.

SHARE Police seek silver Kia Soul in slayings of boy, 14, and man, 65 in Chicago Lawn neighborhood
Two people were shot, one fatally, July 24, 2021, in Gage Park.

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A teenage boy and a man were killed Tuesday in a drive-by shooting in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the city’s Southwest Side.

Juan Medina Jr., 14, and Mario Medina, 65, were in the 3500 block of West 61st Place just before 4:30 p.m. when someone in a silver Kia Soul car pulled up and an occupant opened fire, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

The boy was pronounced dead at 4:41 p.m. by a doctor from Holy Cross Hospital while the man was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. Both victims lived in the 3500 block of West 61st Place.

No one was in custody.

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