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15-year-old boy shot in Chatham

The teen is hospitalized in serious condition after being struck several times in the 7800 block of South State Street early Monday morning, police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

Police cars at night. — A teen was shot several times about 2:30 a.m. Monday on a sidewalk in Chatham, police said.

A 15-year-old boy was wounded in a shooting early Monday in Chatham.

The teen was on a sidewalk in the 7800 block of South State Street when someone approached and began shooting about 2:30 a.m., striking him multiple times, Chicago police said.

He was listed in serious condition at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said.

No one was in custody.

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