News Crime Roseland

2 shot, wounded at bus stop on the South Side

By Sun-Times Wire

A 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old girl were shot and wounded a little after 1 p.m. Saturday as they stood at a bus stop in the 10200 block of South Michigan Avenue in Roseland on the Far South Side.

The man was shot in the abdomen and left arm and the girl in an arm, according to the police, who said both were being treated at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.

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