2 men hurt in Lawndale shooting

SHARE 2 men hurt in Lawndale shooting
sun_times_stock_21.jpg

Sun-Times file photo

Two men were wounded, one of them seriously, in a shooting Saturday morning in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.

The men, ages 21 and 25, were outside at 11:32 a.m. in the 3000 block of West Lexington when someone in a red vehicle shot at them, according to Chicago Police.

Both men were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said. The 21-year-old was in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the groin while the 25-year-old was in good condition with a graze wound to the wrist.

The Latest
Archer Courts, 2242 S. Princeton Ave., will soon get a new hot water system, ventilation system and rooftop solar panels through a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Leasure will make his major league debut on Thursday.
The funds will help target a big problem for a city opening its doors to President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Convention in August. Just 17.94% of registered voters in suburban Cook County and 25.7% of registered voters in Chicago voted in the March 19 primary.
Playing time has dwindled for Tinordi, a physical defensive defenseman who was a pleasant surprise for the Hawks last season but hasn’t found nearly as much success without Connor Murphy.
His surgeons spent 10 hours transplanting his new lungs and liver in September. Six months after the operation, Dr. Gary Gibbon remains cancer-free, able to breathe on his own and celebrated his 69th birthday on Wednesday.