A teenager from the Chicago Lawn neighborhood was shot and killed early Sunday in what police said was a drive-by shooting.
The victim was identified as Joshua Saucedo, 18, of the 5600 block of South Richmond Street, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He was pronounced dead at 4:30 a.m. in the Stein Institute.
Saucedo and several other men were standing on a street corner in the 2000 block of West 49th Street about 1:50 a.m. when an eastbound car drove past them and a person inside opened fire, Officer Marcel Bright said.
Saucedo was struck in the neck and fell to the ground. A 26-year-old man with him was grazed on the right shoulder and refused medical attention, police said.
The car was described as a late-model beige Chevrolet Impala, Bright said. Police do not know how many assailants were in the car. Wentworth Area detectives are investigating.
Police are also searching for a gunman who shot and killed a south suburban teenager early Saturday after he and two friends left a party to buy drugs, Bright said.
William Evans, 19, of the 9000 block of Main Street in Hometown, was pronounced dead in Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn at 4:11 p.m. Saturday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Evans and two friends left a party to buy marijuana, Bright said. The three teens bought the drugs and were driving back to the party about 1:50 a.m. when they stopped in the 6000 block of South Richmond Street, Bright said.
An unknown assailant approached the car and fired a shot into the car, striking Evans, who was a passenger, in the head. His two friends were not injured, Bright said.
“Initially, his friends in the car didn’t know that he had been shot,” Bright said. “They thought a rock had hit the car” and shattered the window.
When officers arrived, they discovered that Evans had been shot. He was treated at Advocate Christ until he died, Bright said.
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