CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A teen boy died Sunday morning after being shot Friday in West Rogers Park on the North Side.
Officers found 17-year-old Caleb Reed lying on a sidewalk about 1 p.m. Friday in the 1900 block of West Granville Avenue, authorities said. He had been shot in the head and was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, according to Chicago police.
Reed died at the hospital about 6:40 a.m. Sunday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
“Caleb was a son, a brother, a community organizer, and a neighbor. His light and potential have been extinguished at the hands of gun violence, like so many others in Chicago,” Vasquez said in a statement. “As a city, we need to address the root causes of this violence, which is the segregation and disinvestment in the communities that need it the most for generations now.”