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2 Killed, 9 Wounded In Shootings Since Tuesday Morning, Police Say

By Alex Nitkin | July 27, 2016 9:36am
 Those shot included five women, a 13-year-old boy and a 50-year-old man, police said.
Those shot included five women, a 13-year-old boy and a 50-year-old man, police said.
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CHICAGO — Eleven people were shot, two fatally, on the city's South and West Side between Tuesday morning and Wednesday morning, police said.

Just before noon Tuesday, 18-year-old Keon Boyd was killed and two others, including a 13-year-old boy, were wounded in Austin.

Around midnight Tuesday night, Africa Bass, 23, was shot and killed on the same South Chicago block where she lived.

Three people were wounded in separate shootings in Englewood Tuesday evening.

• Most recently, at 2:05 a.m. Wednesday morning, a 20-year-old woman was sitting in a parked car in the 100 block of West 112th Street in Roseland when she heard gunshots and felt pain, according to Officer Bari Lemmon, a Chicago Police spokeswoman.

The woman brought herself to Roseland Hospital, where she was listed in good condition with a gunshot wound in her buttocks, Lemmon said.

• At 10:27 p.m. Tuesday night, another 20-year-old was standing in an alley in the 12400 block of South Normal Avenue in West Pullman when two men walked up and shot at her, according to a police incident report.

The woman was brought to Advocate Christ Medical Center with a gunshot wound in her back, police said. Police could not provide her condition but said she was "stable."

• At 7:25 p.m. Tuesday evening, a 32-year-old woman was grazed in her stomach during a shooting in the 2900 block of South Dearborn Street in Douglas, police said. 

The woman was treated by paramedics on scene but refused to be brought to a hospital, police said.

• At 12:22 p.m., a 51-year-old woman was shot in her leg in Marquette Park.