14-year-old boy among 3 shot in East Garfield Park
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CHICAGO - Three people were shot, including a 14-year-old boy, in an attack Monday evening in East Garfield Park.
The boy, a 34-year-old man and a female were standing on the sidewalk in the first block of South Springfield Avenue about 7:45 p.m. when multiple shooters opened fire, Chicago police said.
The boy suffered gunshot wounds to both legs was transported to Stroger Hospital in fair to serious condition, according to police and Chicago fire officials.
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Six people were killed in Chicago over the weekend, including a 13-year-old who was discovered with a gunshot wound to his abdomen, authorities said Monday.
The teenager was found at approximately 9:30 p.m. on Saturday on South Springfield Avenue in the Harrison neighborhood of Chicago, police said. But by the time officers go to him, he was unable to provide details about his attacker, according to police. The gunman has not yet been caught.
The victim, identified by the Chicago Sun-Times as Eddie Thigpen, was a freshman at North Lawndale College Prep, the high school confirmed in a Monday morning post on its Facebook page.
In the weekend’s latest fatal shooting, a 27-year-old man was killed Sunday morning on the Near West Side.
The man was sitting in a parked vehicle with a male friend about 4:25 a.m. in the 1200 block of West 13th Street when the friend demanded money from him, police said.
The man refused and his friend began firing shots, according to police.
The 27-year-old suffered multiple gunshot wounds throughout his body and was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital by another friend who was also sitting in the vehicle, police said.
The man was pronounced dead at the hospital, according to police. The medical examiner’s office hasn’t released his identity.