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Five Wounded Overnight in South, Southwest Side Shootings

By DNAinfo Staff on May 17, 2014 8:07am  | Updated on May 17, 2014 8:30am

  Five people were shot in the city since Friday night, police said.
Five people were shot in the city since Friday night, police said.
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CHICAGO — Five people were shot in the city since Friday night, police said.

The latest incident occurred in the 2500 block of South Damen Avenue in Pilsen about 3:25 a.m. Saturday, with two men being shot, said Officer Michael Sullivan, a police spokesman.

The two men, both of unknown ages, walked into Stroger Hospital. One was shot in his hand and the other in his leg.

In other shootings:

• Also in Pilsen, a 21-year-old man was shot in his abdomen at 12:39 a.m. Saturday in the 2200 block of South Wood Street, Sullivan said. A person with a gun stepped out of a car and shot at the man. The victim was taken to Stroger.

• In Kenwood, a 37-year-old man got in an argument with someone else and suffered a graze wound to the back of his head, Sullivan said. The incident occurred in the 1300 block of East 47th Street about 12:20 a.m. The victim was taken to Stroger Hospital.

• In Little Village, a 29-year-old man was in the rear of a home in the 2500 block of South St. Louis Avenue when a person with a gun walked up and shot at him. After being shot in his arm and grazed in the back of his head, the victim was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. 

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