Man, teen shot in Roseland

A man and a teenage boy were shot in the Roseland neighborhood Thursday night on the South Side.

The man, 20, and the 17-year-old boy were sitting on a porch near 95th and Harvard at 8:35 p.m. when four unknown males walked up and started shooting, police said. The man was shot in the back, and the boy in the nose.

Both were taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where their conditions had stabilized, police said.

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