(Tribune illustration / March 19, 2012)





A teenager was wounded, fatally, the afternoon of April 6th in a shooting in the East Chatham neighborhood.

At about 12:23 p.m. in the East Chatham neighborhood, Jaleen Armstrong of the 8000 block of South Ingleside Avenue was shot in the groin on the 8100 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue, police said.


Police responded to a call of shots fired in the area and found the man with a gunshot wound to his body, Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Veejay Zala said.


Armstrong, 18, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was later pronounced dead at 1:35 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

No one was in custody for the shooting. Area South detectives were investigating.