Crime News Metro/State

Woman seriously wounded in domestic shooting in West Chatham

She was taken to University of Chicago Hospital in serious condition, police said.

By Grace Asiegbu

At least 26 people were shot in Chicago in the first night of the weekend.

A woman was seriously wounded in a domestic shooting Thursday afternoon in West Chatham on the South Side, police said.

A man shot the woman, 22, in an alley in the 7900 block of South Harvard Avenue around 12:30 p.m., Chicago police said.

Paramedics took her to the University of Chicago Hospital with a gunshot wound to her chest, police said.

No arrest was made.

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