17-year-old boy shot in Lawndale drive-by — third teen shot in under 12 hours

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• 21 shot, 2 fatally, Tuesday in Chicago Chicago police work the scene where 5 teens where shot, 1 fatally, in a drive-by involving a stolen vehicle in the 4800 block of South Ada Street, in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-TimesTyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Two people were killed and 19 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago Tuesday. In the day’s first fatal attack, five teens were struck by gunfire Tuesday afternoon in Back of the Yards on the South…
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• Boy, 14, dies days after being shot during attempted robbery in Chicago Lawn: Officials A teen boy died days after he was shot while attempting to rob a man Apr. 28, 2022, in Chicago Lawn. File photo A 14-year-old boy shot last month during an attempted robbery in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood has died. The boy, identified as Corey Mason, was with two other people who approached a 60-year-old man on April 28 near 66th and Mozart streets and placed a gun against the man’s back, Chicago police said. Someone opened fire and the…
• Teen boy, 17, fatally shot in Englewood: police Sun-Times file photo A 17-year-old boy was shot to death Friday night in Englewood on the South Side. About 7:25 p.m., the teen boy was near the sidewalk in the 6900 block of South Ada Street when someone fired shots, Chicago police said. He suffered gunshot wounds in the chest and armpit area, police said. He was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. His name hasn’t been released. Area detectives are investigating. ...read…
• Chicago Sun-Times journalism wins 17 Chicago Headline Club Peter Lisagor Awards A series of stories by Sun-Times reporter Robert Herguth on Catholic church secrecy regarding child sexual abuses by priests and other clerics from Catholic orders won two Peter Lisagor Awards for Exemplary Journalism, presented Friday by the Chicago Headline Club. Chicago Sun-Times staff members were recognized Friday with 17 top honors in the Chicago Headline Club’s yearly Peter Lisagor Awards for Exemplary Journalism. The awards — the most given to any news outlet — cited 16 Sun-Times journalists for excellence…