11-year-old girl among 6 wounded in shootings in Chicago Tuesday

The girl and a man were shot in a Humboldt Park alley on the Northwest Side.

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Six people were wounded in shootings Tuesday in Chicago.

  • An 11-year-old girl and a man were shot in Humboldt Park on the Northwest Side around 10:10 p.m. The girl and the man, 22, were in an alley changing a tire in the 3300 block of West Crystal Street when three people approached and opened fire, Chicago police said. The girl was struck in the lower left leg and the man in the buttocks and lower right leg. Both were taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition.
  • A 16-year-old boy and a woman were wounded in shootings minutes apart on the Northwest Side. The teen was in an alley in the 5800 block of West Walton Street about 6:25 p.m. when he was grazed in the right arm, police said. He was taken to West Suburban Hospital in good condition. Minutes later, a woman, 20, was traveling in a car in the 4200 block of West Fullerton Avenue when she was shot in the back. She was taken to Community First Hospital in good condition.

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