Chicago Area Local News

CHICAGO (CBS) ― Police are searching for the assailant who shot and killed a 15-year-old boy and wounded a second victim in the Far South Side's Roseland neighborhood.

As CBS 2's Joanie Lum reports, area residents say they have heard shootings nearby for three days, and have to gather their children inside to avoid the danger.


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Paula Brothers said her two nephews were on the back porch Monday night when someone ran through the gangway, shooting. 

Her nephew opened the door.

"He fell in and said, 'Auntie, we been shot. Don't worry about me; see about Percy,'" Brothers said.

Percy Rounds, 15, of 105 W. 116th St., was shot at killed and pronounced dead on the scene, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. 

At least two unknown gunmen came out of a gangway and began firing shots at the two, police News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak said. The teens lived with their aunt.

Rounds suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was dead on the scene. Brothers' other nephew, who is 17, was shot in the thigh and taken in good condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Banks said.

"They shot him in the head. They just shot him in the head. He was a good kid… he gave himself to the Lord, he's been going to church faithfully every Sunday; Bible study," Brothers said. "He wasn't in a gang. He was a good kid overall."

Brothers is a nurse and tried to tend Rounds' wounds, but he was dead on the scene.

"I don't know who they were looking for, aiming at," she said. "I don't think the bullet was meant for my baby."

Police don't know the motive for the shooting but neighbors say Rounds was an innocent victim in a gang dispute.

"He was a good kid," said neighbor David Rodgers. "That hurt my heart he died. I just talked to him. He talked to me yesterday and now he dead."

Witnesses said a lot of people were outdoors at the time.

"My kids were out here, my cousins, all that," neighbor Michael Rodgers said. "It coulda been one of them."

"I was just on my way to walk around the corner," said Shanetta Kimber. "I heard eight shots so I ducked, and that was it. I saw the police and the ambulance coming, so I knew somebody got shot."

"I went straight to the ground, because I already know they fly in different directions," said Shauntay Rodgers, "and it's another innocent person going to die."

"This is a problem out here with a lot of these young kids," said Rounds' uncle Steven Kyles. "The way I see it, it's not going to stop until the community decides to do something about it."

"For him to sit on his back porch and somebody to come through his backyard to do something like that, he was lookin' for anybody to shoot at," said neighbor Octavius Walker.

Neighbors are calling on Chicago police to increase patrols in their neighborhood.

"Kids can't play," Michael Rodgers said. "This has been going on the past four, five months. And all I know is it's crazy."

Rounds had graduated from Stagg Elementary School, 7424 S. Morgan St., and was he was going to be a freshman at Hyde Park Career Academy High School, 6220 S. Stony Island Ave., according to Chicago Public Schools spokesman Malon Edwards.

Area residents say they have been terrorized in the last three days. Just after 7 p.m., a man and woman were shot and wounded Sunday night near 60 W. 116th St., on just the next block from where Rounds was shot. Both shootings appear to be the result of growing tension between rival gangs in the neighborhood.

A little more than a month ago, 14-year-old Jeremy Jones was fatally shot about three blocks south of where Rounds was killed.

No one was in custody for Rounds' shooting death as of 5 p.m. Tuesday.

CBS 2's Joanie Lum and Susan Carlson, and the STNG Wire contributed to this report.

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