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Boy, 15, shot and killed in Little Village

By FOX 32 Digital Staff
Published  August 18, 2022 5:37am CDT
Little Village
FOX 32 Chicago

6-year-old recovering after Woodlawn shooting

A 6-year-old boy was among six children who were shot in a nine-hour period Wednesday across Chicago.

CHICAGO - A teenage boy was fatally shot Wednesday night in the Little Village neighborhood, marking the sixth minor to be wounded in Chicago gun violence during a nine-hour period.

The 15-year-old was in the 2400 block of South Trumbull Avenue around 9 p.m. when he was struck in the abdomen by gunfire, according to Chicago police.

He self-transported to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead. 

The Cook County medical examiner's office has identified the boy as Benjamin Ortega.

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The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately clear.

Chicago's Wednesday violence: 6-year-old shot, 4 teens wounded

A 6-year-old boy was shot Wednesday afternoon. Later on in the evening, four teens on a South Side porch were wounded by gunfire.

Five other juveniles were shot Wednesday, including four teens who were on a front porch of an Englewood home when a gunman opened fire.

A 6-year-old boy was shot and critically wounded around 2:19 p.m. inside an apartment in the West Woodlawn neighborhood.

No one is in custody as area detectives investigate.