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UPDATE: 2 dead, 11 shot & wounded in shootings across city - All before midnight in Chicago - 1 dead, 6 shot & wounded in shootings on South, Northwest Sides as African American violence continues

Tuesday 14 May 2013

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Two men have been killed and at least another 11 people injured in shootings since yesterday afternoon on the city's South, West and Northwest Sides.



Seven people have been shot, one of them fatally, since late afternoon on the South and Northwest Sides, authorities said.
About 10:20 p.m., a 21-year-old man was found shot inside a vehicle in the 7400 block of South Damen Avenue, police said.
He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Information about the circumstances of the shooting were not immediately available. Police said no suspects are in custody.
About 10 p.m., an 18-year-old man was shot in both sides of his body in the 9600 block of South Carpenter Street, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said.
The man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where his condition was stabilized.
Earlier, someone fired shots from an alley in the Logan Square neighborhood, striking a man and a woman, police said.
The shooting happened about 8:10 p.m. in the 2100 block of North Campbell Avenue, authorities said.
A 32-year-old woman sustained a gunshot wound to the thigh, and a 54-year-old man sustained a gunshot wound to the leg, Alfaro.
Paramedics took the woman in serious-to-critical condition to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago Fire Department Chief Joe Roccasalva said. They took the man to Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center in fair-to-serious condition.
The shooter fled in a red minivan and was not taken into custody, Alfaro said.
Earlier in the Far South Side's South Chicago neighborhood, a 19-year-old man was shot in the forearm, police said.
The man was walking westbound on East 90th Street when he heard shots and realized he was struck near South Exchange Avenue, Alfaro said.
He was taken to Trinity Hospital in good condition.
Separately in the South Shore neighborhood, two people were shot shortly after 4 p.m.
A 19-year-old man and a man in his 20s were injured in the shooting, which happened in the 7700 block of South Burnham Avenue, News Affairs Officer Joshua Purkiss said, citing preliminary information.
The younger man was shot in the back, and the older man was shot in the back and the head, Purkiss said.
Paramedics took two people from the area to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in serious-to-critical condition, Roccasalva said.

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