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A 52-year-old man died after crashing his car into a lamppost Monday evening in Park Manor on the South Side.
His westbound Ford Fusion veered off the road about 9:40 p.m. and crashed into a lamppost in the 300 block of East 71st Street, Chicago police said in a statement.
He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified him as Jack Eugene Boyd of Park Manor. Next Up In News
Chicago Police Supt. David Brown on Monday praised three officers whose quick thinking saved an off-duty officer who was shot while waiting at a traffic light.
CHICAGO (WLS) Chicago police are searching for at least two gunmen who ambushed an off-duty officer and shot him in the abdomen as he sat in his Jeep in the city s Calumet Heights neighborhood Monday.
The officer was stopped at a traffic light in the 8900-block of South Stony Island Avenue while off-duty in his personal vehicle at about 12:21 p.m. when the suspects pulled up behind and alongside the vehicle and fired shots inside, wounding the officer in the lower torso, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said.
Shotspotter alerted tactical teams who responded to the scene and transported the officer to the University of Chicago Medical Center.
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A 17-year-old boy was shot Monday in Englewood on the South Side.
He was on the sidewalk about 6:17 p.m. in the 6700 block of South Sangamon Street when someone unleashed gunfire, Chicago police said.
The teen was struck in the buttocks and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition, police said.
Area Two detectives are investigating.
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