Seven wounded during South and West side shootings
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At least seven people were shot on the South and West Sides since Saturday afternoon, including a 20-year-old woman who was not the intended target, police said.
Most recently, about 3:40 a.m. on the city's West Side, at least one person has been shot in the 400 block of North Ridgeway Avenue in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, police said.
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Earlier, at 2:40 a.m. in the 500 block of East 75th Street in the city's Park Manor neighborhood, a 32-year-old man was shot in the ankle, said Officer Ronald Gaines, a spokesman for the Chicago Police.
The victim, who was taken to Jackson Park Hospital where his condition had stabilized, told police he was standing on a sidewalk when he heard shots and felt pain, said Gaines.
In another shooting which occurred at 2:15 a.m. in the 2500 block of West Jackson Boulevard, a 22-year-old man was shot in the back, said Gaines. He was being treated at Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition.
Saturday night, a 32-year-old man was shot in the leg and ankle in the 2400 block of West Fillmore Street about 9:50 p.m., said Gaines.
The 32-year-old told police he was standing on a sidewalk when he heard shots and felt pain. The man, a “self admitted gang member,’’ was taken to Mount Sinai hospital where his condition had stabilized, according to Gaines.
A man was shot and critically injured in the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood earlier Saturday, police said.
The man, age 24, was shot about 5:30 p.m. in the 8800 block of South Wood Street, said Officer Veejay Zala, a police spokesman.
The man suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was in critical condition, said Zala. Police News Affairs was releasing no further information.
At 3:10 p.m. a 20-year-old woman who was not the intended target was shot in the arm along with a 21-year-old man who was shot in the leg in the 1100 block of North Karlov Avenue on the city's West Side, said Gaines.
The woman told police she was walking on a sidewalk when she heard "loud reports and she was struck by gunfire,'' Gaines said.
She was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County where her condition had stabilized. The man was being treated at Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center where he was in fair condition, said Gaines.
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