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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Police seek silver Kia Soul in slayings of boy, 14, and man, 65 in Chicago Lawn neighborhood: CPD

(Sun-Times file)

A teenage boy and a man were killed Tuesday in a drive-by shooting in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the city’s Southwest Side.

Juan Medina Jr., 14, and Mario Medina, 65, were in the 3500 block of West 61st Place just before 4:30 p.m. when someone in a silver Kia Soul car pulled up and an occupant opened fire, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

The boy was pronounced dead at 4:41 p.m. by a doctor from Holy Cross Hospital while the man was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. Both victims lived in the 3500 block of West 61st Place.

No one was in custody.

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