Two 17-year-old boys were shot, one fatally, about 2:30 a.m. about 2:30 a.m. on Millard
Avenue just north of 16th Street in the Lawndale neighborhood.
. One victim was taken to
Mount Sinai Hospital, where he later died, and the other was taken to John H.
Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County.
A crowd surrounded and hassled paramedics at the scene and they couldn't
drive the ambulance away. Paramedics called "10-1," a distress call
for first responders, which prompted police from across the district and a
neighboring district to race to the area. Paramedics loaded both victims into a
single ambulance and drove a few blocks away to stabilize them before
transferring one to a different ambulance so they could go to different
hospitals.
UPDATE:
The youth killed was identified as Jeffrey Triplett of the 900 block of North
Drake Avenue, according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner's
office
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