It happened after 6 p.m. on the unit block of Woodrow Avenue.
Emergency operators received a call that a child fell down the stairs, but then another person got on the phone and said there had been a shooting.
When police arrived they found the 16-year-old dead of a gunshot wound to the head.
The 17-year-old, whose name is being withheld faces charges including aggravated manslaughter.
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