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Two people were shot, one of them fatally, Tuesday in Chicago, including a 53-year-old man who was shot in the head and killed in Humboldt Park on the Northwest Side.
Officers responded to a call of gunfire about 5:45 a.m. and found the man unresponsive on a sidewalk in the 700 block of North Trumbull Avenue, Chicago police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with a gunshot wound to his head. He was later pronounced dead. Officers found shell casings in the street. The circumstances of the shooting remain unknown.
In non-fatal shootings, a 39-year-old man was shot in East Garfield Park on the West Side. About 11:15 p.m., he was standing outside his vehicle in the 700 block of North Hamlin Avenue, when he heard shots and felt a pain, police said. He was struck in his hand and took himself to Norwegian American Hospital, but was transferred to Stroger Hospital where he is in good condition. He told officers he did not see the shooter.
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Police are alerting Northwest Side residents to a recent spate of armed robberies in Albany Park and Irving Park.
In four robberies since the middle of January, robbers targeted victims at gunpoint and stole their belongings, Chicago police said in a community alert.
They happened:
about 12:20 a.m. Jan. 18 in the 3700 block of West Ainslie Street;
about 11 a.m. Jan. 18 in the 5000 block of North Springfield Avenue; and
about 10:55 a.m. Jan. 21 in the 4300 block of North Kildare Avenue.
Police said the suspects were men in their 20s or 30s.
Anyone with details was asked to call Area Five detectives at 312-746-7394.
Young mother celebrating her 26th birthday, shot to death in car in Garfield Park WLS
Chicago shooting: Mother of 2 Qiana Harding, celebrating her 26th birthday, shot to death in car late Sunday night in Garfield Park at 700-block of North Hamlin Avenue
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A woman who was celebrating her 26th birthday was shot to death in her car late Sunday night in Chicago s Garfield Park neighborhood.
Police said she was stopped at a red light in the 700-block of North Hamlin Avenue just after 11 p.m. when someone pulled up next to her and fired shots, striking her in the head twice.
Qiana Harding, 26, was celebrating her birthday when she was shot while in a car Sunday night in the 700-block of North Hamlin Avenue in Chicago's Garfield Park neighborhood.