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Labor Day violence down in Chicago, but teen killed a day before start of school

CHICAGO _ Antwon Green, 15, was looking forward to seeing his friends as he started another year at Corliss High School on the Far South Side.

"He was excited about it," his father Michael Jones said, struggling for words. "But I don't know, he ... I can't talk about it."

The night before classes were to begin, Antwon was standing in front of a West Side home in Chicago's Lawndale neighborhood when he began arguing with some men around 7:50 p.m. Monday, police said.

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