Alex Arellano's family was so concerned about threats the 15-year-old was getting from gang members that they pulled him from Chicago Discovery Academy in the fall.
But they didn't know how serious the situation was until his uncle got a chilling call on Friday from a friend of the teenager's, saying that he was being chased and beaten with bats in a neighborhood several miles from their home.
"He was knocked down by bats, and after he got up he started to run but was struck by a car that was chasing him," said his uncle, Juan Tirado, who went Friday night to the area near 53rd Street and Sacramento where the caller said Arellano was last seen, but could find no sign of him.
The teen's severely beaten and burned body wasn't found until about 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the 3000 block of West 54th Place, a few blocks from where Tirado had been directed, police said.
The Cook County Medical Examiner's office said Arellano died of a gunshot wound to the head and ruled it a homicide, but would not say if the teen was dead before his body was burned. No one had been arrested by this evening.
It was the 35th Chicago Public School system student killed this year.
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