Chicago weekend shootings have left at least 27 people shot, five fatally, police said.
CHICAGO -- At least 28 people have been shot, five fatally, in weekend violence across Chicago, police said.A 16-year-old boy was among two shot Sunday morning in Lawndale on the West Side. The boy and a 57-year-old man were standing on a sidewalk in the 700-block of South Albany Avenue about 2:30 a.m. when they were struck by gunfire, Chicago police said. The teen was taken to Stroger Hospital with a gunshot wound to the right leg, police said.
A 13-year-old boy was wounded in a shooting Saturday night in Grand Boulevard. The teen was struck in his left knee when someone opened fire from a white Honda sedan when the boy and another person were walking through a gas station lot about 10:20 p.m. in the 4300-block of South State Street, Chicago police said. He was taken to Comer Children's Hospital in fair condition, police said. No one was immediately in custody as Area 1 detectives investigate.
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