2 teenagers grazed in Northwest Side shooting

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Two teenagers were grazed in a shooting early Friday in the Irving Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

At 1:43 a.m., a 16-year-old boy was the passenger in a vehicle in the 3600 block of North Milwaukee when a male shooter approached and opened fire, according to Chicago Police The boy was grazed in the forehead.

He was driven to the 1100 block of North Christiana, where an ambulance was called, police said. He was then taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition stabilized.

The second victim, an 18-year-old man, later showed up at Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center with a graze wound to the arm, police said. He had been wounded in the same shooting.

Additional information was not available.

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