14-year-old boy critically wounded in West Ridge shooting
A 14-year-old boy is in critical condition after being shot in the neck by an unknown offender while standing on a sidewalk in West Ridge on Friday afternoon.
A teen was shot in West Ridge Friday afternoon, Chicago police said.A 14-year-old boy was on the sidewalk in the 6300 block of North Rockwell Street about 3 p.m. when he was shot in the neck by an unknown offender, police said.He was taken to Lurie Children's Hospital in critical condition, police said.Mohammad Rafiq Mohammad Yasin, 36, lives a block away from the boy.Yasin, who has lived in the community for over a decade and says he knows the boy's family, said he heard three gunshots.“After…
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