16-year-old boy found shot to death in Woodlawn

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A 16-year-old boy was fatally shot Monday night in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side.

Officers responded at 9:47 p.m. to a call of shots fired in the 6400 block of South Langley, where they found 16-year-old Michael D. Hickingbottom in an alley with multiple gunshot wounds to his head and body, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Hickingbottom, of the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side, was pronounced dead at the scene at 10:10 p.m., authorities said.

No one is in custody, and Area Central detectives are investigating the shooting.

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