Crime & Safety
16-Year-Old Girl Wounded by Gunfire While Walking to School
She was hit in the leg as a truck and a car traded shots on Chicago's West Side.
Another bystander has been shot on Chicago’s neighborhood streets. This time, a 16-year-old girl walking to school on the West Side was wounded during an exchange of gunfire between a man in a U-Haul truck and someone in a passing car Thursday morning.
The shooting took place about 8:30 a.m. in the 1400 block of North Kildare near Hirsch Street in Humboldt Park, according to police. WGN reports that shots were exchanged between the driver of the U-Haul and a person in the car, then the truck driver plowed into parked cars along the street.
The girl, about a block away on the sidewalk, suffered a gunshot wound to her right leg. She was taken to Advocate Masonic Medical Center. WGN reports that she’s in stable condition.
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The green car sped away. The truck driver was not injured.
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