A high school boy was shot to death while riding his bike to school Monday morning in the South Chicago neighborhood, according to a police report.
Officers found the 17-year-old, whose identity wasn’t yet public as of Monday evening, lying in the bushes at 8386 S. Baker Avenue just before 8:30 a.m., the report stated. The teen was still astride his bicycle and wearing an Epic Academy school lanyard, per the report. The school, located a few blocks from where police found the boy, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Officers found more than 20 shell casings in the area, the report stated, and a witness told police she had seen three people wearing ski masks stand over the teen and shoot him before driving east in a black sedan.
Police later found the sedan a few blocks away and determined that it had been used in an expressway shooting before the alleged shooting in South Chicago.
No one was in custody in connection with the killing, according to a department statement, and Calumet area detectives were investigating.
