2 shot on Far South Side

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A 55-year-old woman and a 44-year-old man were wounded in an Eden Green neighborhood drive-by shooting Tuesday evening on the Far South Side.

It happened about 5:30 p.m. near 132nd Place and King Drive, according to Chicago Police.

The man was shot in the back, chest and leg and taken in serious condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. The woman was in fair condition at Roseland Community Hospital with a leg wound, police said.

No one was in custody Tuesday night.

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