Another Conehead Corpse

North side this time:

• A 17-year-old boy is dead after being shot in a drive-by on Chicago’s Northwest Side early Friday, and the circumstances surrounding his death have renewed scrutiny of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s decision to let the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection contract expire.

  Passersby came across the boy lying in the street in the 6700 block of West Grand Avenue at around 12:49 a.m. and flagged down a patrol car, believing he had been struck by a vehicle. Officers who responded initially shared that assessment, but a subsequent investigation determined he had been shot.

  Surveillance footage pulled by officers in the local district’s surveillance room showed a gray Volkswagen SUV traveling north on Normandy Avenue, with a gunman firing from the back seat, according to preliminary information. No one called 911 to report gunfire in the area.

According to CWB, this is the 80th incident in areas formerly covered by ShotSpotter.