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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Sun-Times Wire

CPS student, 17, killed in shooting near Kenwood Academy

(Sun-Times file)

A Chicago Public Schools student was killed in a shooting Friday afternoon near Kenwood Academy High School in Hyde Park, marking another round of gunfire near a CPS building in the early weeks of the new semester. 

Authorities identified the victim as 17-year-old Kanye Perkins, who lived in the neighborhood where he was slain about noon, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. 

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