14-year-old boy shot to death in Austin

A 14-year-old boy was shot to death Saturday afternoon in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.

Just after 3 p.m., Laquan Allen was on the sidewalk in the 4900 block of West Hubbard when someone fired shots from a passing vehicle, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Allen suffered a gunshot wound to the buttocks and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:34 p.m., according to authorities. He lived in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood.

Area North detectives were investigating.