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player ready...A 14-year-old boy shot dead in the Homan Square neighborhood tried to warn his companion before shots rang out Thursday afternoon, police said.
Maleek Smith was with a male companion shortly after 2 p.m. at Polk Street and Lawndale Avenue when they encountered a shooter and had a “brief interaction” with the assailant, according to a Chicago police report.
Maleek told his companion to “Run!” and they both raced north on Lawndale, when the companion heard gunshots and saw Maleek fall to the ground, according to the report.
The companion found someone to call 911; when officers and paramedics got there, Maleek, of the Homan Square neighborhood, was pronounced dead at 2:18 p.m., according to the report and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
An autopsy Friday determined Maleek died of a gunshot wound to the back and his death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.
No one was in custody.