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Sketch released of sexual assault suspect; Park Manor shooting | June 14, 2018

By Alice Bazerghi

Welcome to our morning article rounding up crime (and more) happenings from around the Chicago area overnight.

Five men were wounded in shootings across the city Wednesday.

At 2:18 a.m., a 42-year-old man was shot in Park Manor. He was sitting on a porch when a car drove by and someone inside fired shots at him.

Police released a sketch of a man wanted for sexually assaulting a woman Sunday night. She was walking in South Chicago when the man forced her into an alley and sexually assaulted her.

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