
(WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Cook County Sheriff's police are investigating the homicide of a University Park teen whose body was found in the south suburbs.
Sheriff's police said they found 16-year-old Jaiden Howard's body in a forest preserve near Dixmoor Tuesday night.
The Cook County Forest Preserve called the sheriff's police to the Calumet Woods Forest Preserve on South Thornton Road. Sheriff's police said Howard was found unresponsive and pronounced dead at the scene.
According to the Cook County examiner's office, Howard had a gunshot wound to his head, and his death was ruled a homicide.
Sheriff's police are asking anyone with information to contact investigators- at 708-865-4896.
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