13-year-old boy shot in head, killed inside Edgewater apartment building: Chicago police
Five other people have been shot either in the alley or just outside of it since late May.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Edgewater residents are expressing their concerns about safety after a 13-year-old boy was shot to death in the neighborhood on Sunday night.
Chicago police said the shooting happened at about 8:16 p.m. in the 6000-block of North Kenmore Avenue.
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Responding officers found a 13-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the head inside an apartment building, police said.
The boy was transported in critical condition to St. Francis Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, police said. Authorities have not released the boy's identity.
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While police continue to search for the boy's killer or killers, residents are expressing their alarm over what they see as a severe escalation of violence surrounding the building over the last couple of months.
Flyers calling on residents to call in their tips anonymously were all over the 6000-block of North Kenmore on Monday afternoon, one day after the boy was killed. Five other people have been shot either in the alley or just outside of it since late May.
"We are troubled by this area, because it's had too many incidents involving gun violence, especially involving our young people," said 48th Ward Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth.
Manaa-Hoppenworth said evictions and arrests have already been made related to some of the previous shootings, but that more needs to be done, saying her office is working on it with the building's owner as well as the Chicago Police Department.
"Evictions need to continue to happen, because it can't be that one person is going to continue to affect the daily lives of everybody else, because they cannot behave in a way that keeps everybody safe," Manaa-Hoppenworth said.
While many residents on the block privately expressed their concerns regarding this specific building and a couple of others in the area as being centers of criminal activity, none were willing to speak out publicly, with some citing fear of retribution.
One nearby resident told ABC7 that several people on the block are scheduled to attend a meeting with Manaa-Hoppenworth, the police commander and the building's owner on Tuesday afternoon. They are hoping to hear concrete answers to their questions and concerns.
No one is in custody in connection with the 13-year-old's killing, and Area Three detectives are investigating.
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