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Shootings in Chicago Thursday claimed the life of a 17-year-old girl in Little Village and wounded seven other people.
She was struck in the head and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition, police said. She was later pronounced dead, according to police.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not yet released information on her death.
A 55-year-old man was shot Thursday night during an attempted carjacking in West Pullman on the Far South Side.
The man was sitting inside his blue Nissan Rogue about 9:35 p.m. in the 12300 block of South Princeton Avenue when a number of unknown males approached him and showed a handgun, police said.
2 killed, 4 hurt Wednesday in Chicago shootings
By Sun-Times Media Wire
CHICAGO - Six people were shot, two fatally Wednesday in Chicago, including
The men were in the 7300 block of South Stewart Avenue when someone fired into their vehicle and fled in a red SUV about 2:30 a.m., Chicago police said. The two tried to drive off and struck several parked cars. A 31-year-old man was shot in the armpit and the other man, age unknown, was struck in the head and pronounced dead at the scene. The 31-year-old was brought to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not yet identified the men.
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Apr 14, 2021
In a year when covid-19 shattered the pleas of so many who prayed for miracles, a Georgia man with two new lungs is among the fortunate.
Mark Buchanan, of Roopville, received a double-lung transplant in October, nearly three months after covid left him hospitalized and sedated, first on a ventilator and then on the last-resort treatment known as ECMO.
“They said that it had ruined my lungs,” said Buchanan, 53, who was a burly power company lineman when he fell ill. “The vent and the covid ruined ’em completely.”
At the time, only a handful of U.S. hospitals were willing to take a chance on organ transplants to treat the sickest covid patients. Too little was known about the risks of the virus and lasting damage it might cause, let alone whether such patients could survive the surgery. Buchanan was turned down at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, according to his wife, Melissa, who said doctors advised her to withdraw treatment and allow him to die peace