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Crime & Mayhem

Washington Park Shooting Ends With One Killed, Another Wounded

By DNAinfo staff
June 7, 2014 8:45am | Updated June 7, 2014 8:45am
A man is dead and another is wounded following an early morning shooting in Washington Park Saturday.
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CHICAGO — A man is dead and another is wounded following an early morning shooting in Washington Park Saturday.

Police were called to the 5600 block of South Wabash Avenue about 1:30 a.m. when they found two men shot in the alley, said Officer Jose Estrada, a police spokesman.

Brian Weekly, 18, of the 1400 block of West 79th Street, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.

A 20-year-old man was sent to Stroger Hospital in critical condition due to unknown injuries, Estrada said.

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