Man shot in arm in Garfield Park

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A 31-year-old man was wounded in a shooting Saturday in Garfield Park on the West Side. 

He was in “a verbal altercation” with people in the back of a building in the 3900 block of West Wilcox Street about 4:37 a.m., Chicago police said. One of the individuals pulled out a gun and fired shots, striking the man in the arm. 

He was taken to Stroger Hospital where his condition was stabilized, police said. 

Area North detectives are investigating.

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