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Shootings Wound 3 People Since Tuesday, Police Say

By Kelly Bauer | March 22, 2017 8:07am
 Three people have been wounded in shootings since Tuesday, police said.
Three people have been wounded in shootings since Tuesday, police said.
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CHICAGO — Three people have been wounded in shootings since Tuesday, police said.

• At 2:20 a.m. Wednesday, a 61-year-old man was shot in Washington Park, police said. Officers responding to a call of a person shot found the man lying in an apartment hallway in the 5800 block of South Wabash Avenue.

The man had been shot in his stomach and was taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition, police said. The circumstances of the shooting were unknown.

The man was uncooperative with officers, a police source said.

• At 12:45 a.m., a 42-year-old man was shot in Roseland, police said. The man was leaving a home in the 9300 block of South LaSalle Street when someone in a passing maroon-colored Grand Prix fired shots at him.

The man was hit in his left shoulder and taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in serious condition, police said.

• At 7:29 p.m. Tuesday, a 51-year-old man was shot in North Lawndale, police said. The man was working as a clerk at a store in the 4100 block of West 16th Street when two people walked in and said they were robbing the store.

One of the robbers had a gun and the clerk was shot in his abdomen during the robbery, police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where his condition was not available but he was listed as "stable," police said.

The robbers ran away.

No one was in custody in these shootings.