16-year-old boy fatally shot near downtown Red Line stop, then more gunfire hours later inside station

A 16-year-old boy was fatally shot near the Grand Red Line station on the Near North Side early Monday, and hours later more gunfire rang out inside the station.

The fatal shooting happened around 2 a.m. in the first block of East Grand Avenue, police said.

Vadarrion A. Knight, from the West Lawn neighborhood, was shot twice in his chest and once in the knee, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

The boy was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. A gunman was seen running from the scene.

Hours later, gunfire rang out inside the station during the morning rush. A man was exiting the train platform at 9 a.m. when an argument turned physical, police said. Someone hit the man in the forehead with a firearm and fired two shots, but no one was struck by the bullets, police said.

The man, 30, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and stabilized, police said.

No one was in custody in either incident.

Monday’s shooting was the first murder reported on the Near North Side this year, according to police data.

There have been four other shootings in the community area this year, one of them only a block away from Monday’s shooting. On Feb. 1, a man was shot in the 100 block of East Grand Avenue shortly before 1 a.m., police said.

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