The August death of a 17-year-old boy who was shot in the head before being pulled from a house fire in north suburban Grayslake has been ruled a homicide.
Firefighters responded at 12:34 a.m. Aug. 22 to the fire in the 300-block of Normandy Lane, according to Grayslake police.
Officers rescued 17-year-old Zackary Bollam from the blaze, but discovered he had been shot in the head, police said.
Bollam was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he died at 3:02 p.m. Aug. 26, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.