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A man was extradited from Mississippi this week after being arrested in the Calumet Heights killing of a 32-year-old man that also left another man wounded in January, authorities said.
7 shot Thursday in Chicago
By Sun-Times Media Wire
CHICAGO - Seven people were shot Thursday in Chicago, including a 21-year-old woman grazed in a shooting in Parkway Gardens on the South Side.
She was walking to her vehicle just before midnight in the 6400 block of South King Drive when she heard gunshots and dropped to the ground, Chicago police said. She realized she had suffered a graze wound to the thigh and was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition, police said.
A 37-year-old man was seriously wounded in a shooting in Lawndale on the West Side. The shooting happened about 11 p.m. in the 1300 block of South Millard Avenue, police said.
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Fifteen people were shot, four of them fatally, Wednesday in Chicago including a man who was shot to death in Lawndale on the West Side, according to police.
The man, 28, was sitting in a parked vehicle about 8 p.m. when someone walked up and fired shots at him in the 2100 block of South Keeler Avenue, Chicago police said. He was struck in the back and taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he died, police said.
Less than an hour prior, two people were shot, one fatally, in West Lawn on the Southwest Side. The males were both shot in the abdomen about 7:05 p.m. in the 6200 block of South Komensky Avenue, police said. They were taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where one of the victims, a 22-year-old, died. The other victim’s age was not known.