A 15-year-old boy who was among two youngsters who were wounded Thursday afternoon in a shooting in the Back of the Yards neighborhood has died from his injuries, Chicago police said.

Alex Durante, of South Shore, was pronounced dead late Thursday night, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. An autopsy is scheduled for Saturday.

Alex and a 12-year-old boy had a physical squabble with an “unknown number” of people in a vacant lot in the 600 block of West 47th Street about 3:45 p.m., when one of the others pulled a handgun and opened fire, police said.

Police: 2 youths critically wounded in Back of the Yards shooting

The boys were taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where they were both initially reported in critical condition, officials said.

The shooting prompted a

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