Overview
- The Grant Park shooting occurred Wednesday night and left a 16-year-old with a neck wound who later died at Northwestern Memorial Hospital; Area Three detectives are investigating and no one has been publicly charged in that case.
- Officers found a firearm on a nearby Metra platform and briefly detained a 19-year-old who was arrested for trespassing, though witnesses told police he was not the shooter.
- Separately, police arrested a 15-year-old this week and prosecutors filed multiple felony counts, including first-degree murder and attempted murder, in the April 15 bus-stop shooting that killed 16-year-old Hyde Park Academy student Eric Billups and wounded a 16-year-old girl.
- Witness accounts and police reports say the April attack followed a school-day dispute and that investigators recovered multiple shell casings at the scene, and the accused was arrested in the 6700 block of South Cregier Avenue.
- The incidents have heightened local concern because both attacks happened in youth spaces near schools, transit and parks, and they raise questions about juvenile charging rules and how prosecutors and schools respond to youth-targeted gun violence.