One teen was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting near a high school in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, fire officials said.
According to authorities, CPR was in progress for at least one victim following a shooting in the 1200 block of West Thorndale Avenue, near Nicholas Senn High School.
Fire officials later confirmed that three teens, all males, were wounded in the shooting, two 16-year-olds and one 15-year-old.
At a press conference Wednesday evening, Chicago Police Department Superintendent Larry Snelling confirmed that one of the teens had died and that all three were CPS students.
Snelling said one of the teens shot is currently in critical condition while another teen is in stable condition with a gunshot wound to the leg.
The teen killed was identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office as 16-year-old Daveon Gibson.
Mayor Brandon Johnson also spoke during the update, pleading against violence as the city reels from its second fatal shooting outside a high school in less than a week.
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"Whatever conflict whatever pain that you are expressing, this is not the way to do it. The loss of life is tearing at the fabric of the city," Johnson said.
Snelling said there is no evidence that Wednesday's shooting and last week's fatal shooting outside a high school in the Loop are connected, adding that police believe Wednesday's shooting to be a targeted incident.
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"We all need to hold these violent criminals accountable for their actions. What we have to start thinking about are the victims in this situation because when someone is shot when someone is killed, it doesn't just affect that particular victim," Snelling said.
Resources will be available for affected students at Senn High School tomorrow, according to Snelling.
