Boy, 17, killed in Hegewisch drive-by shooting

A 17-year-old boy died a day after being shot on Sunday night in the Hegewisch neighborhood on the Far South Side.

Ralph R. Cancel, of Whiting, Indiana, was sitting in the driver’s seat of a vehicle about 5:55 p.m. in the 4000 block of East 134th Street when another vehicle pulled up and someone inside fired shots, striking him in the head, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

A passenger in the vehicle drove Cancel to St. Margaret Hospital in Hammond, Indiana, authorities said. Cancel was later transferred to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 12:35 p.m. Monday.

Area South detectives were investigating.