Two teenage boys were shot and killed on Tuesday, Feb. 8, one in Bronzeville and the other a block away from the UChicago Charter School Woodlawn Campus.

At around 4 p.m. 16-year-old Uriel Rodger-Knox was shot in the 6200 block of South Greenwood Avenue, just down the street from the charter school. He was immediately taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where he died shortly after. 

Police are currently questioning a potential suspect.

About an hour earlier, Michael Brown, a 15-year-old attending the Chicago Military Academy in Bronzeville, was shot twice in the head around 3:15 p.m. while in the 3300 block of South Prairie Avenue. He was brought to the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital, where he was subsequently pronounced dead.

Police have detained two juvenile, male suspects; the suspected pair had been involved in an armed carjacking of a Lyft vehicle just an hour prior.