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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

10-year-old boy shot in Austin neighborhood

A 10-year-old boy was wounded in a shooting Wednesday night in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.

The boy was shot in the buttocks about 7:50 p.m. in the 900 block of North Lawler, police said.

He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford.

In an unrelated shooting, a 25-year-old man was shot in the leg at 6:41 p.m. in the 1800 block of South Carpenter and walked into University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, police said. A source said the man was a known gang member.

Nobody was in custody in either shooting, police said.





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