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16-year-old boy wounded in Brighton Park drive-by shooting

The teen was sitting in a parked car in the 2600 block of West Pope John Paul II Drive when someone in a red car fired shots.

By Sun-Times Wire

A woman has been charged with killing her newborn child last fall in Leyden Township. — A 16-year-old was shpt September 15, 2021 in Brighton Park.

A 16-year-old boy was wounded in a drive-by shooting Wednesday night in Brighton Park on the Southwest Side.

The teen was sitting in a parked car about 10:40 p.m. in the 2600 block of West Pope John Paul II Drive when someone in a red car fired shots, Chicago police said.

He suffered a graze wound to the head and was shot in the arm, police said. He was transported in fair condition to Mount Sinai Hospital.

No one was in custody.

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