9-year-old boy fatally shot in Matteson during fight between teenagers, police said
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A 9-year-old boy was fatally shot Thursday outside his Matteson home as a result of a fight between teenagers, police said Friday. Police received a call at 6:06 p.m. Thursday from a woman stating her grandson had been shot outside their home in the 800 block of Campus Avenue, said police Chief Michael Jones. When officers arrived, they provided medical care by packing the wound with clotting gauze and applying a compact chest seal, Jones said.The boy, Omuria Jones Brown, was taken to the hospital, Jones said, where he died as a result of a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
“We are heartbroken. We are all in mourning here in the village of Matteson,” said Village President Sheila Chalmers-Currin. “I give my full condolences to this family. We will do everything in our power to come to a resolution for this family.”Brown was a third grader at Arcadia Elementary School in Olympia Fields, according to a statement from Matteson Elementary District 162 Superintendent Blondean Y. Davis.
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