A 17-year-old girl was killed and a 16-year-old boy was wounded in a shooting Saturday in Austin on the West Side. It was the second shooting that killed a teenager in Chicago on Saturday.
The boy and girl were in Galewood Park around 4 p.m. in the 5700 block of West Bloomingdale Avenue when someone fired shots, Chicago police said.
Ashuntice Wilburn, 17, of Westmont, was shot in her buttocks and taken to Stroger Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
The 16-year-old boy was shot in the leg and taken to the same hospital in good condition, police said.
Police did not release more details.
Another teenager was killed in a separate shooting in Chicago later on Saturday. Rajon Harshaw, 14, was shot in his head and chest just before 7 p.m. in the 8700 block of South Creiger Avenue in Calumet Heights.
Police reported no arrests in either shooting.
