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Avalon Park Shooting Wounds Man, 29, During Robbery

CHICAGO — A 29-year-old man was shot during a robbery in Avalon Park on Monday, police said.

At 1:20 p.m., the man was in the 7900 block of South Kenwood Avenue when someone shot him in his upper left leg during a robbery, police said.

The man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where he was in serious condition, police said.

The man was a documented gang member, a police source said.

Police originally said the man had been hit in his left upper chest and killed in the shooting.

No one was in custody.