At least 10 others were shot across the city within 12 hours Tuesday. The double homicide happened about noon in the 3400 block of West Fulton Street, authorities said. Neighbors said the shots apparently came from a passing SUV.
The 17-year-old boy was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital with a head wound, and the 16-year-old boy was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital with head, back and arm wounds. Police initially stated the two were both 16 years old and one was pronounced at the scene.
Authorities said the teens were outside on a sidewalk when they were shot by someone in a black SUV. A 65-year-old woman in the house behind them was hit in the leg and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she was stabilized, police said.
Neighbors said the woman had just moved to the neighborhood and the teens were standing in front of her house when they were shot.
A 51-year-old man who lives across the street said he was lying in bed when he heard about seven gunshots. He and his wife rushed outside to find the two teens lying on the ground, shot.
"In the past year there's been so much shooting, it's pathetic," said the man, who works at a hotel laundry service. He did not want to be named.
The woman with him said she recognized one of the boys as her son's friend. She said the woman who was shot just moved to the block and kept to herself.
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