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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
David Struett

12-year-old boy killed in Englewood: ‘They were shooting, and he caught the bullet’

The scene where a 12-year-old Damien Green was fatally shot Sunday evening in the 6700 block of South Lowe Avenue in Englewood (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

Twelve-year-old Damien Green was walking to his grandmother’s home in Englewood as he usually did most Sundays.

After attending church with her that morning, the child stopped by a school to play basketball. But as he returned to his grandmother’s home to wait for his mother to clock out of work, gunfire rang out into a group of people near Marquette Road and Lowe Avenue.

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