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Rogers Park Shootings Wound Teen, Man, Police Say

By Kelly Bauer | October 14, 2016 8:24am

CHICAGO — Shootings in Rogers Park left a teen and 32-year-old man wounded between Thursday and Friday, police said.

• Most recently, at 1:28 a.m. Friday, a 17-year-old was walking down the street in the 1500 block of West Farwell Avenue when he heard shots and felt pain, police said.

The teen was hit in his leg and was taken to St. Francis hospital, where his condition was not available but he was listed as "stable," police said.

• At 7:43 p.m. Thursday, the 32-year-old man was walking on the sidewalk in the 1500 block of West Jonquil Terrace when someone walked up and fired shots, said Officer Ana Pacheco, a Chicago Police spokeswoman.

The man was hit in his left leg and was taken to St. Francis Hospital in good condition, Pacheco said.

He is a documented gang member, police said.

No one was in custody.

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