2 Killed Including 7-Year-Old Girl, 17 Wounded In Weekend Shootings Across Chicago
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CHICAGO (CBS) At least 19 people have been shot, two of them fatally, so far this weekend in Chicago.
Among those killed was a 7-year-old girl who was shot in a vehicle in Lawndale.
The weekend’s gun violence began shortly after 7 p.m. Friday, when an 18-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman inside a business in the 3600 block of West 16th Street in the Lawndale neighborhood, and a person walked in and shot both of them.
The 18-year-old man, identified as Jawon Ward, was shot in the chest and face, and was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital, according to police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. The 44-year-old woman was shot in the left shoulder and was taken to Mount Sinai in good condition.
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The University of Chicago will train U.S. Army surgeons, nurses and other emergency care specialists at its South Side trauma center as part of an initiative announced this week.
The Army has been partnering with trauma centers around the country through a government program started in 2019, and the U. of C. joins seven others, including those operated by teaching hospitals in New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon and Tennessee.
Lt. Col. Timothy Plackett, a trauma surgeon who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan, has already begun work at the Hyde Park trauma center. He’s the commander of a medical unit stationed in Fort Bragg in North Carolina that will begin sending medical personnel to Chicago later this year.
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