The 13-year-old boy found shot to death on Chicago's South Side has been identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner.

A teenage male was shot in the head and killed overnight in North Lawndale on the city's Southwest Side, according to Chicago police. Police say officers were on patrol when they found an unresponsive teenage male on the ground with a gunshot wound to the head just after 2 a.

Fire crews arrived at the scene to treat the victim, believed to be a teen, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.