Crime News Chicago

Boy, 17, fatally shot in Fuller Park

Donnell Jamison was found between two houses about 7 p.m. Thursday in the 300 block of West 51st Street.

By Sun-Times Wire

Red crime scene tape is seen lit up from a car’s headlights.

A 17-year-old boy was found shot to death Thursday night in Fuller Park on the South Side.

Donnell Jamison was found between two houses about 7 p.m. in the 300 block of West 51st Street, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Jamison suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead, police said.

Area One detectives are investigating.

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