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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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A 19-year-old man is facing murder charges in a fatal shooting in the Mayfair neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Shortly before 1 p.m. on Dec. 17, Carlos Cruz called his brother because he was worried about a white Nissan Maxima that was following him, in the 4000 block of West Wilson Avenue, Cook County prosecutors said Thursday.
Cruz’s brother then came out of his nearby house and allegedly saw Julio Rubio-Gonzalez get out of the Maxima’s rear passenger door and fire at Cruz, striking him multiple times.
Cruz’s brother hid behind a garbage can about 15 feet away and watched until Rubio-Gonzalez got back in the car and drove away, prosecutors said.