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"path": "/crime/2026/02/23/slain-plainfield-teens-family-learned-of-garfield-park-shooting-through-citizen-app-police-report",
"publishedAt": "2026-02-23T19:40:20.810Z",
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"textContent": "<p>An 18-year-old Plainfield teen's family found out he had been gunned down after seeing a shooting on the Citizen app located in the last known area of their son. </p><p>Police were called around 8:25 a.m. Saturday when a witness walking his dog found the teen, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/02/21/lawndale-homicide-keeler\" target=\"_blank\" >Trevon Wright, lying unresponsive on the ground in a backyard of a home in the 900 block of South Keeler Avenue,</a> Chicago police said. Wright, who suffered gunshot wounds, was declared dead on the scene.</p><p>Police then found another witness who told them she heard gunfire around 9:30 p.m. Friday but didn't call 911 because she thought the shots were down the block, according to a police report obtained by the Sun-Times.</p><p>Around the same time, when Wright didn't return to his Plainfield home after going to a Chicago party, his family started looking for him, and learned his last known location was in the same area of a shooting they found on the Citizen app, according to the report. </p><p>The family drove to the West Side and found the crime scene, and his father, who declined to comment when reached by the Sun-Times, later identified his son. </p><p>Several personal items were found the scene, including a cell phone shattered by a bullet shell casings, air pods and a vape, the report said.</p><p>An autopsy determined Wright died of multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office and police. </p><p>No one was in custody Monday. </p><p>Area 4 detectives are investigating.</p>",
"title": "Slain Plainfield teen's family learned of Garfield Park shooting through citizen app: police report",
"updatedAt": "2026-02-23T20:24:26.456Z"
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