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Chicago boy, 15, gunned down on porch

Police in Chicago are investigating the death of a 15-year-old boy who was shot multiple times while on the front porch of a home on the city’s South Side.

The Cook County medical examiner’s office says Mark Watts was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital. An autopsy is planned.

Police say the boy was wounded in the legs, abdomen and buttocks Wednesday night. Authorities say he’d just walked out of the home when the shooting began.

No arrests have been made.