Police investigating shooting death of 17-year-old boy in Chicago suburb
ROUND LAKE BEACH, Ill. (CBS)-- Round Lake police are investigating the shooting death of a 17-year-old boy Wednesday night.
Around 8:20 p.m., police responded to a call near Cedar Lake and Rollins roads, after receiving a 9-1-1 call from a cell phone in the area, according to the Lake County Coroner's Office.
Police found 17-year-old Chad Greenenwald, of Fox Lake, in the passenger seat of a car parked at a gas station. The car had been damaged by gunfire, and Greenenwald had been shot in the chest.
He was taken to Advocate Condell Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Officers were also investigating near Midland and Sycamore drives, where police believe the shooting took place just after 8 p.m.
Investigators said there were initially three people – Greenenwald, the driver, and another passenger – in the car found parked at the gas station.
Police believe they were likely meeting someone when they were approached by at least one person on foot.
Police said the driver drove to the gas station, where officers located the vehicle and victim.
Officers were looking through the grass outside Diamond Jubilee Park at the intersection of Midland and Sycamore Drive near where a neighbor said he spotted headlights around 8 p.m. on Wednesday because his dog began barking at people outside. As soon as the neighbor sat back down in his living room, he heard the shots that he mistook as a car backfiring.
"When I was closing the door, I saw a car parked over there," said the neighbor, who asked to remain anonymous. "I saw the headlights. I did not see what kind of car it was and then, when I shut the door, the car sped off and I heard four shots."
The neighbor added the shooting was "unusual. There's nothing like that that has ever happened here before. It's the first time this has ever happened in this area."
No arrests have been made.
Anyone with any information regarding this shooting is asked to call the Round Lake Police Department at 847-546-8112.
