CHAMPAIGN â Police are looking for the person who shot a Danville 18-year-old as he exited a business Thursday evening in north Champaign.
Police were called at 5:30 p.m. to a local hospital where the 18-year-old was being treated for a gunshot wound to the hand.
Police spokesman Tom Yelich said officers were told the victim was coming out of an undisclosed business in the 1500 block of North Prospect Avenue when the shooter approached him, fired and struck him.
The victim was taken to the hospital by a private vehicle. No arrests have been made and no description of the shooter was available.
URBANA â Two men were treated for gunshot wounds after someone fired into a home Wednesday night in Urbana.
Just before 8 p.m., police were sent to the 1700 block of South Cottage Grove for a report of shots fired. They found 17- and 20-year-old males at a house in that block, both of whom had been shot once in the leg. The men, both residents of Urbana, were taken to Carle Foundation Hospital for what were described as non-life-threatening injuries.
Officers learned that they had been standing inside a garage when someone approached on foot and fired about six times through the closed garage door, then fled.
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