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Englewood Shooting Kills 1 Man, Wounds 1, Police Say

CHICAGO — A shooting in Englewood left one man dead and another wounded on Friday afternoon.

At 2:30 p.m., the men were sitting on a porch in the 6700 block of South Loomis when someone walked out of a gangway and fired shots at them, said Officer Michelle Tannehill, a Chicago Police spokeswoman.

A 39-year-old man was hit in his chest and taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in critical condition, Tannehill said. He was later pronounced dead, said Officer Bari Lemmon, a Chicago Police spokeswoman.

The man was identified as Shawn Euing, of the 6700 block of South Loomis Boulevard, in Cook County Medical Examiner's Office records. Euing was pronounced dead at 2:50 a.m. An autopsy showed he died o fa gunshot wound in his chest in a homicide.

A 26-year-old man was hit in his lower back and right leg and was taken to Holy Cross Hospital, where his condition was not released but he was listed as "stable," Tannehill said.

The shooter ran away, Tannehill said. No one was in custody.

The 26-year-old man was a documented gang member, police said.

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