Man critically wounded while sitting on back porch in South Austin

A man was shot and critically wounded as he sat on a back porch South Austin on the West Side Tuesday afternoon.

The 28-year-old was attacked about 5:20 p.m. in the 200 block of North Central Avenue, Chicago police said.

He was taken to the Loyola University Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the left side of his back, and was listed in critical condition, police said.

No one was in custody.