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  "path": "/crime/2026/04/23/boy-16-found-fatally-shot-in-abandoned-stolen-car-in-south-chicago",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-23T13:28:21.988Z",
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  "textContent": "<p>Detectives continue to look for witnesses and any video evidence after a 16-year-old boy was found shot in the head in the backseat of a stolen car riddled with bullets in the South Chicago neighborhood Tuesday night. </p><p>A security officer flagged down a police officer to tell them about an apparently abandoned Hyundai Elantra, which was reported stolen and was still running in the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/04/21/man-fatally-shot-in-south-chicago-car\" target=\"_blank\" >8600 block of South DuSable Lake Shore Drive about 8:30 p.m.,</a> according to police report. </p><p>Inside officers found the unidentified boy in the back seat, shot in the head, according to the report, which said the car had \"multiple bullet strikes.\"</p><p>The boy was pronounced dead on the scene by paramedics and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center. </p><p>Officers learned there was a call of shots fired and criminal damage to property in the 8600 block of South Drexel Avenue. When police got there, they found several vehicles hit by gunfire and a \"large amount of blood in the street,\" the report said.</p><p>No arrests have been made. </p><p>Area 2 detectives are investigating.<br></p>",
  "title": "Boy, 16, found fatally shot in abandoned, stolen car in South Chicago",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-23T13:28:21.988Z"
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