<p>When Asucena Velázquez hugged her 17-year-old son before he left for school Tuesday morning, she never imagined he would not return home.</p><p>Pedro Ramírez was heading from his home in the Back of the Yards neighborhood to Tilden High School when he was shot and killed in the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/05/26/17-year-old-boy-killed-2-critically-wounded-in-back-of-the-yards-shooting" target="_blank">5000 block south of Throop St.</a></p><p>"It never crossed my mind that my child could be hurt going to school," Velázquez told the Sun-Times. "They stole my son's future."</p><div class="RichTextSidebarModule Enhancement" data-module data-align-center><a class="AnchorLink" id="module-fc0000" name="module-fc0000"></a> <div class="RichTextModule-items RichTextBody"><h3>La Voz Chicago WhatsApp</h3>Find more news on our WhatsApp channel. <a class="Link" href="https://www.whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb0XT1XCHDylm3rCs40P" target="_blank"><b>Follow us.</b></a></div> </div><p>Around 7:40 a.m., a stolen black Jeep Cherokee carrying four masked assailants pulled up behind a red minivan heading south near 51st Street, according to a police report.