March 13--A 19-year-old man was shot in the leg Thursday afternoon in the West Pullman neighborhood, while another man was also shot in the leg in the West Woodlawn neighborhood.
On the sidewalk in the 12300 block of South Emerald Avenue where he was shot: a pair of Nikes set aside neatly by paramedics, a pair of pants, a belt and blood from the man's leg wound.
He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where his condition was stabilized, police said.
The man was outside when someone in a passing silver SUV opened fire before fleeing west on 124th Street toward Halsted Street about 12:35 p.m., police said. Detectives came and went, leaving behind a single police SUV to guard the crime scene.
An older woman with silver hair who lives in the seafoam-green-sided frame house grabbed the officer so he could escort her and two small children inside without disturbing evidence inside the tape.
"Did he live around here?" she asked the officer. "They come around here in these neighborhoods, I don't know what's going on. But I'm glad he didn't get killed."
Police said it wasn't clear if the man was affiliated with a gang. No one is in custody. Area detectives are investigating.
In the West Woodlawn neighborhood mid-afternoon, a 28-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the leg in the 6100 block of South Vernon Avenue, police said. The man went to St. Bernard Hospital and Healthcare Center, where his condition was stabilized.
