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Uptown Shooting Wounds 22-Year-Old Man, Police Say

By Kelly Bauer | February 16, 2016 8:29am

CHICAGO — A shooting in Uptown left a 22-year-old man injured Tuesday morning, police said.

At 2:45 a.m., the man was driving in the 900 block of West Leland Avenue when a car pulled alongside him and someone in the car shot at the man, said Officer Janel Sedevic, a Chicago Police spokeswoman.

The man was hit multiple times in the body, head and neck. He was taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital in "stable" condition, Sedevic said.

The man is a documented gang member, police said.

No one was in custody in the shooting.

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