Boy, 16, shot in Washington Park neighborhood

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A 16-year-old boy was wounded Friday night in a Washington Park neighborhood shooting on the South Side.

He was outside about 6:45 p.m. in the first block of East Garfield when he heard gunshots and felt pain, Chicago Police said.

He was taken to Stroger Hospital with a gunshot wound to his back, police said. His condition had stabilized.

About 20 minutes earlier, two men were shot inside a vehicle about a half mile west in the Fuller Park neighborhood.

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