A man was killed and another was wounded in a shooting Saturday in Austin on the West Side.
Officers responding to reports of a person shot at 7:46 p.m. in the 200 block of North Central Avenue found the two men on the sidewalk, according to Chicago police.
A 27-year-old was shot in the torso and taken to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not released details about the fatality.
The other man, 32, was hit in the left foot and taken to the same hospital in good condition, police said.
Earlier that evening, a 3-year-old boy was killed and his father was grazed in another shooting blocks away in the 600 block of North Central.
Area Four detectives are investigating both shootings.
