13-year-old boy dies week after being shot in South Chicago, officials say

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A teen boy who was shot in the head and critically injured last week on the city's South Side has now died, officials said.

The shooting happened around 2:50 p.m. May 21 in the 8200 block of South Coles Avenue in South Chicago, police said.

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Officers responded to the scene and found a 13-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to his head.

The victim was taken to Comer Children's Hospital in critical condition, CPD said.

The Cook County Medical Examiner said Thursday, a week after the shooting, that the boy has died. He was identified as DeAntwan McKeever.

A neighbor who lives next to where the victim was discovered told ABC7 last week he heard a flurry of gunfire. The shooting left the block draped in crime tape and neighbors with unanswered questions.

"A little overwhelmed to hear what happened," nearby resident Ronya Fulgiam said. "It's sad. I'm hurt. You know, I feel for whoever the family is."

Nearby resident Nathaniel King says he heard a barrage of gunfire.

"But I didn't know it was right, right here next to my door, and I didn't know that, and that was like, that was shocking to me," King said.

King says the boy was found unresponsive in this gangway next to his home.

"He didn't look like no... gang member or something like that. He didn't look like that," King said. He looked like somebody was just getting out of school, seriously."

The shooting happened steps from a CPS charter high school, but it doesn't appear the victim was old enough to be a student there. He was found around dismissal time.

Police have not said what led to the gunfire, adding to the mystery for neighbors on the block with young children.

"13 years old, that's a baby," Fulgiam said.

Police spent much of the evening the day of the shooting on that block and were seen going door to door for surveillance video.

No further information was available as Chicago police continue to investigate.

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