14-year-old boy killed in Chatham drive-by shooting

The boy was in the 700 block of East 91st Place before noon Wednesday when someone in a white vehicle opened fire. He was struck in his back and chest and taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, Chicago police said.

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A 14-year-old boy was killed in a drive-by shooting Wednesday morning in Chatham on the South Side.

The boy, identified as Tyree Brown, was standing in the 700 block of East 91st Place before noon when a passenger in a white vehicle opened fire, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

The vehicle went around the block, and the shooter fired at the boy again, police said.

Brown was found less than a mile away in the 9100 block of South Dauphin Avenue with two gunshot wounds to his back and one to his chest, officials said.

The boy was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

No one was in custody.

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