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Shooting Outside Daycare Center Friday Morning Wounds 19-Year-Old Man

 File photo: crime scene tape. Inset: Christopher House Exterior
File photo: crime scene tape. Inset: Christopher House Exterior
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UPTOWN — A 19-year-old man was shot as children played outside a nearby daycare in Uptown Friday morning. 

At about 10:52 a.m. Friday, the man was walking near the intersection of Leland and Winthrop avenues when shots were fired from a grey car, striking him in his left shoulder, said Officer Nicole Trainor, a Chicago Police Department spokeswoman.

A bullet also struck a second floor window of Christopher House, a daycare at 4701 N. Winthrop Ave., Trainor said. A grey car had been sitting at the intersection as children played on the playground, a neighbor said. 

The victim ran to the fire department at 1200 W. Wilson Ave. before being taken via ambulance to Illinois Masonic Medical Center. The man is in good condition, Trainor said.

Neighbor Elizabeth Gerard was in her Winthrop Avenue apartment when she heard a group of about four young men talking outside her window, and then about a dozen shots rang out. 

"It sounded like it came from outside my window," she said, adding that she heard the victim scream, "I've been hit."

Construction workers and neighbors were also outside when the shots were fired, but Gerard was told she was the first to call police, she said.

"That's what still shocks me. I go outside and check and no one has called cops," said Gerard, who has lived on the block for three years. "I am unfortunately used to the sound of gunshots. This goes on at least once a month."

Two weeks ago, Gerard was at the drive-thru window at McDonald's, 1004 W. Wilson Ave., when shots rang out. 

"I said f*** the food," she said. "Today was the last straw. I called my roommate at work and told her to be safe, closed my door and started looking for apartments in Evanston."

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