Boy, 17, killed in Gage Park shooting: police

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A teenage boy was shot and killed Friday evening in the Gage Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side, police said.

About 6:55 p.m., Luis Rodriguez, 17, was walking in the 3500 block of West 58th Street when four males jumped out of a black SUV and began shooting, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Rodriguez was struck twice in the back and taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where he died, police said. His death was ruled a homicide following an autopsy that found he died of multiple gunshot wounds.

Area South detectives conducting a homicide investigation, police said. No arrests have been made.

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