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Boy, 16, Wounded in Austin Shooting Thursday Night

By DNAinfo Staff on August 1, 2014 7:01am

  A 16-year-old boy was shot on an Austin sidewalk Thursday night, police said.
A 16-year-old boy was shot on an Austin sidewalk Thursday night, police said.
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CHICAGO — A 16-year-old boy was shot on an Austin sidewalk Thursday night, police said.

The incident occurred in the 5400 block of West Iowa Street about 11 p.m., according to Officer Hector Alfaro, a police spokesman.

The boy is in stable condition after being taken to Mount Sinai Hospital for bullet wounds in his right thigh and groin.

The boy was one of at least three people wounded in shootings overnight. A man was killed in South Shore and another was wounded in Rogers Park.

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