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Nov 15, 2008 8:03 am US/Central

17-Year-Old Fatally Shot Near His South Side Home

CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) ― A 17-year-old boy was fatally shot just a few doors away from his South Side home Friday night.

The shooting happened about 8:20 p.m. on the 6000 block of South May Street, police said. The victim, identified as Johnathan Welsh, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office, was shot in the upper torso.

Police responded to a call of a man shot and discovered Welsh unresponsive with a bleeding chest wound, police said. It was reported witnesses heard a loud verbal altercation prior to the shooting.

Welsh, who lived at 6014 S. May St., was pronounced dead at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County at 9:30 p.m., the medical examiner's office spokesman said.

Wentworth Area detectives are investigating.

(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2009. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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