Crime

17-year-old boy wounded in East Garfield Park drive-by

By Alexandra Kukulka

A 17-year-old boy was wounded in an East Garfield Park drive-by shooting on the West Side Saturday afternoon.

The boy parked a car in the 3100 block of West Madison Street at 3:22 p.m. when two vehicles drove by and someone inside one of the vehicles fired shots, police said.

He suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and was taken to Mount Sinai in good condition, police said.

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