Police name two teenage boys shot dead as they left high school

Chicago police working at the scene where two high school students were shot and killed in Chicago (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Two teenage boys who were fatally shot on Friday by masked suspects as they and other students were leaving a Chicago high school have been identified by authorities.

The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the victims as 17-year-old Monterio Williams and 16-year-old Robert Boston. Both died at a hospital, police said.