17-year-old boy shot to death in Chatham identified

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A man was fatally shot June 16, 2020, in Garfield Park.

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A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed Saturday night in the South Side Chatham neighborhood.

Jontae Hunt was shot in the hip about 8:20 p.m. in the 8600 block of South Michigan Avenue, Chicago Police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said.

Hunt, who lived in the same neighborhood, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 9:32 p.m., authorities said.

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