The 13-year-old was among three teens shot on the 4600 block of South Spaulding Avenue just before 10 p.m..
He was shot in the head and body and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The other two -- a 15-year-old boy shot in the forearm and thigh and a 16-year-old boy shot in the arm.
The three were sitting on a porch when two males emerged from a gangway nearby and started shooting at the trio. The pair ran back the way they came and are not in custody.
Police said none of the three self-identified or were known to police as gang members and only the 16-year-old had been arrested - in 2007, when he was 11.
One of the 13-year-old's older relatives affiliates with a gang that has been feuding with two others for months, police said, and was down the block at the time of the shooting.
Police are investigating the possibility that the shooting was retaliation for the shooting death of a 28-year-old woman Friday night on the 4000 block of South Albany Avenue, based on reports from the first arriving officers to the scene.
UPDATE:
The 13-year-old, identified as Robert Luna by the Cook County Medical Examiner's office,
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