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2 Teens Among 4 Wounded in Shootings Since Saturday Afternoon, Police Say

 Four people have been wounded, including a 13-year-old boy in East Garfield Park, in shootings since Saturday afternoon, police said.
Four people have been wounded, including a 13-year-old boy in East Garfield Park, in shootings since Saturday afternoon, police said.
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CHICAGO — Four people have been wounded, including a 13-year-old boy, in shootings since Saturday afternoon, police said.

In total, three people have been killed and 21 people have been wounded in violence across the city since Friday night.

In Pilsen, a 19-year-old man was found lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to his head. He is in critical condition, police said.

• Most recently, at 5:25 a.m., an 18-year-old man was driving westbound in the 3600 block of West Congress Pkwy. in West Garfield Park when a light-colored car pulled up and someone inside fired shots, striking the man in his right shoulder and left forearm, said Officer Stacey Cooper, a Chicago Police Department spokeswoman.

The man was dropped off at Mount Sinai Hospital and was listed in critical condition, Cooper said.

• Several hours earlier, a 16-year-old boy was walking though an alley in the 6200 block of South Hermitage Avenue in West Englewood, when he heard shots and felt pain. He was shot in his ankle and taken to John H. Stroger Hospital where his condition had stabilized, Cooper said.

• In East Garfield Park at 2:43 p.m., a 13-year-old boy was a passenger in a van in the 3200 block of West Lexington Street when shots were fired from a red SUV, which drove away eastbound on Lexington, Cooper said.

The boy was shot in his back and taken by his family to Stroger Hospital where he was listed in critical condition, Cooper said.

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