1 dead, 17-year-old boy critically wounded Monday night on Far South Side

A victim was fatally wounded and a 17-year-old boy was left in critical condition Monday night in the Riverdale neighborhood on the Far South Side, Chicago police said.

Shortly before 8:15 p.m., officers responded to a call of someone shot in the 13000 block of South Champlain Avenue and found an unresponsive male lying in the street. A 17-year-old boy was discovered nearby also wounded, police said.

The boy was taken with a gunshot wound to the lower back to UChicago Medicine, where he was listed in critical condition, police said.

As of Tuesday morning, the deceased victim had not been identified.

No one was in custody for the fatal shooting and detectives are investigating.

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