Dylan Zavala, 18, male, was discovered on the morning of August 10, 2018, in an alley off the 2900 block of West Pershing Road in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood. He had been shot in the head around 8:10 a.m., and first responders took him to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Officials said he lived in the Douglas Park neighborhood.
That day unfolded amid a surge of citywide shootings. Coverage at the time placed his killing within a violent stretch that drew inten
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