Suburban teen shot, killed on little brother's birthday in Roseland neighborhood, family says

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A 15-year-old boy was shot to death on Saturday afternoon, Chicago police said.

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The shooting happened at about 6:04 p.m. in the 400-block of W. 110th Street in the Roseland neighborhood, police said.

His family identified him as Syruss Box, Jr. of south suburban Posen.

Police said he was near the sidewalk when a dark-colored vehicle approached and someone started shooting.

"It was a silver Honda, two-door with two masked men with short tied around one of their heads and dreads coming out the back. The other one had on sunglasses. They flew down Eggleston," his mother Tierra Evans said.

The boy was shot in the neck and in the abdomen. He was rushed to a hospital where he died, according to police.

"I was holding his neck, trying to keep him alive and he took his last breath in my arms," Evans said. "He wasn't even from around there. He just came over there to celebrate his brother's birthday and they killed my baby. They killed my baby," Evans told ABC7.

A heartbroken family now left reeling outside of Comer Children's Hospital where doctors tried to save the sophomore student's life.

What should've been a day of celebrating one brother, now marked by the senseless murder of another.

"I'm so sad, I don't know what to do, but I know i have to make it. I got to make it," great-grandmother Barbara Myers said.

"He was an innocent young man that didn't even get a chance to live life, but I guess God needed him more than we did right here," grandmother Tara Knighten said. "Whoever did this, you all need to stop the violence because we're killing each other."

Nobody is in custody. Chicago Police have not given a description of the suspect.

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