Tragic Loss: Round Lake Shooting Claims Young Life of Fox Lake Teen!

By Hikaru Y On Oct 16, 2023

The Lake County Coroner’s Office has identified the 17-year-old boy ki!!ed in a shooting in Round Lake Beach this past week as Chad Greenenwald of Fox Lake.

According to the coroner’s office, Greenenwald died from a gunshot wound to the chest. According to a press release from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, police are currently looking into Greenenwald’s death as a possible homicide after learning that he was shot in the vicinity of Midland Drive and Sycamore Drive in Round Lake at around 8:20 p.m. on Wednesday.

Greenenwald was then a passenger in a car that had stopped there, probably to meet someone. The vehicle had a driver and another passenger, and at least one person on foot approached them. A news statement states that immediately after that, the shooting took place.

The driver then took Greenenwald to a petrol station at Round Lake Beach, close to Cedar Lake Road and Rollins Road. At about 8:20 p.m., police officers received a 911 call and began searching for the cell phone that placed the call, according to the news release.

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Greenenwald was inside the car when police discovered it at the petrol station. They took him to Advocate Condell Medical Center, where doctors declared him dead.