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Boy, 3, among 13 shot Friday night
[Chicago Tribune] At least 13 people have been shot in Chicago since Friday afternoon, including a 13-year-old boy fatally shot on the West Side and a 3-year-old boy critically maimed on the Southwest Side, authorities said.The 3-year-old was shot about 10:15 p.m.in the 4400 block of South Sacramento Avenue in the Brighton Park neighborhood, authorities said. Charges are pending against three people in the attack, Police News Affairs Officer Jose Estrada said Saturday afternoon. A shooting victim was taken from that area to Mount Sinai Hospital at death's door, according to a Chicago Fire Department front man. The boy was outside with his mother and another man when two men and two women walked past and exchanged words with the boy's mother and the man she was with, police said. Someone among the group opened fire from down the block after walking by, police said, hitting only the boy. The area is one coping with an ongoing gang conflict but it's not clear if the conflict is related to this particular shooting. Earlier, the 13-year-old was one of seven people, most of them teenagers, shot about 6 p.m. in the 700 block of South Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood, police said. Also this evening, a 24-year-old man was shot in the right leg, left foot and buttocks about 9 p.m. in the 1800 block of East 79th Street in the South Shore neighborhood and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition. Someone opened fire from a dark sedan, police said. Fifteen minutes later, a 17-year-old boy was shot in the city's Washington Heights neighborhood, said police. That shooting happened on the 1100 block of West Aberdeen Street. The boy was standing with a group of people when a dark-colored sedan drove up and someone inside the vehicle fired shots, said police. Posted by: Fred 2014-07-27 |
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