CHICAGO (STMW) — Police are asking for the public’s help in solving the murder of a 15-year-old Chicago Public Schools student, shot outside his Garfield Park home Thursday morning on the West Side.
Police responded at 11:32 a.m. to a call of shots fired and found a teenage boy — identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office as Nathaniel Maxon — unresponsive with a gunshot wound on the block where he lived.
Maxon, of the 4100 block of W. West End Ave., was pronounced dead 12:05 p.m. Thursday at Mount Sinai Hospital, according to the medical examiner’s office.
A Friday autopsy found Maxon died of a gunshot wound to the back and his death was ruled a homicide, the medical examiner’s office said.
CPS spokeswoman Monique Bond said Maxon was a student at Nancy B. Jefferson Alternative School at 1100 S. Hamilton Ave.
Police said there was an “altercation” before the shooting and detectives are looking for two unknown people. Police also received a description of a white minivan that fled eastbound after the shooting.
Police on Friday issued a flier asking for the public’s assistance. Anyone with information should call Harrison Area detectives at (312) 746-8252.
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