Crime News Metro/State

1 dead, 1 hurt in shooting outside Back of the Yards laundromat

Two men were sitting in a parked vehicle in the 1500 block of West Garfield Boulevard when someone opened fire.

By Sun-Times Wire

Crime scene tape. File photo — A man was killed and another wounded in a shooting April 5, 2021, on the South Side.

Two men were shot, one fatally, Monday outside a laundromat in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side.

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Ricky Shipman, 35, and another man were in a parked car about 10:30 p.m. in the 1500 block of West Garfield Boulevard when someone opened fire, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Shipman was shot in the chest and taken to Holy Cross Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said. He was identified as Shipman by the medical examiner’s office.

The other man, 38, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in fair condition with a gunshot wound to the ankle, police said.

Media reports showed police investigating a crime scene outside a laundromat where a car could be seen with bullet holes and shattered glass.

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