2 shot, 1 fatally, outside California Pink Line station

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One man was killed and another was wounded in a shooting Sunday morning outside a Pink Line CTA station on the Southwest Side.

Officers responded to a call of a fight outside the California station in the 2000 block of South California at 7:38 a.m., according to Chicago Police.

Corvus Humphries, 20, was shot in the neck and pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 8600 block of South Honore.

A 24-year-old man was shot in the buttocks and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.

Pink Line trains bypassed the station and no pedestrians were allowed in the station for several hours after the shooting Sunday morning.

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