Crime & Safety
Boy, 15, Shot Dead in Chicago Heights
The teen was found shot behind an abandoned house.
CHICAGO HEIGHTS, IL — A 15-year-old boy was found shot to death late Saturday in Chicago Heights.
Police were called around 10:30 p.m. to an abandoned house in the 600 block of Andover Street, where they found Timothy Boyd unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds, Chicago Sun-Times reports.
Paramedics attempted to revive him, but were unsuccessful. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 10:57 p.m. Boyd lived in the 600 block of Brookline Street in Chicago Heights.
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Anyone with information on the shooting should call detectives at (708) 756-6422.
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