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The family of a southwest suburban teen fatally shot last week on the West Side found out about the shooting through a safety app, a police report said.
Trevon Wright, an 18-year-old from Plainfield, was found fatally wounded on the 900 block of South Keeler Avenue in the West Garfield Park neighborhood shortly before 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning, according to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He was pronounced dead on scene.
Wright’s father told police that his son got picked up in Plainfield Friday night for a party in Chicago, according to the police report obtained by the Tribune. When Wright did not come back home, his family checked his last known location and saw that it was in the same area of a shooting on the Citizen app, prompting them to travel out to the address where Wright’s body was found, the report said.
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