A 14-year-old boy was in serious condition after being shot in the leg Friday morning in Englewood, just minutes after a man was killed in a separate shooting blocks away.
The boy was walking on a sidewalk about 9:13 a.m. in the 100 block of West 69th Street when a black four-door car drove by and someone inside fired shots, Chicago police said.
He was struck in the leg and taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, police said. His condition was serious, but had stabilized.
Minutes earlier, a man was shot in the groin several blocks north.
Officers responded to a call of gunfire about 8:55 a.m. and found the 40-year-old man on a sidewalk in the 5800 block of South Aberdeen Street, police said.
He was taken in critical condition to the University of Chicago Medical Center with a gunshot wound to his groin, but died a day later, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
Although he remains unidentified, an autopsy conducted Sunday confirmed he died of his gunshot wounds, the medical examiner’s office said. His death has been ruled a homicide.
No arrests have been made.
