CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot Tuesday afternoon in Noble Square on the Northwest Side.
Caleb Westbrook was in the 800 block of North Greenview Avenue at about 1:15 p.m. when someone approached and opened fire, striking him in the chest and arm, Chicago police said.
He was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital, police said.
Westbrook was a freshman at Rauner College Prep, according to a post from the school’s principal.
“Caleb was a 9th grader with so much personality,” the statement read. “He loved to crack a joke and always brought positivity and light to his classmates and teachers. Caleb touched so many lives in his time at Rauner.”
About an hour earlier, a 16-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl were shot in Englewood.
No arrests have been reported in either shooting.
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