4 wounded in West Garfield Park shooting, including 17-year-old boy

The teen was shot in the buttocks and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition, police said.

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Police work the scene in the 4400 block of West Jackson in West Garfield Park, Wednesday, April 27, 2022.

Police work the scene in the 4400 block of West Jackson in West Garfield Park, Wednesday, April 27, 2022.

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Four people were wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, according to Chicago police.

They were standing on a sidewalk in the 4400 block of West Jackson Boulevard when someone fired shots from a white sedan around 2 p.m., police said.

A boy, 17, was shot in the buttocks and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition, police said.

A 27-year-old man was struck in the leg and taken to Stroger Hospital, while a 32-year-old man was also taken to Mount Sinai with a gunshot wound to the buttocks, police said. He was in good condition.

Another man, 39, was shot in his back and listed in good condition at Stroger

Police reported no arrests.

Hours earlier, a 16-year-old boy was shot in the head and critically wounded a few blocks away.

Over the weekend, another mass shooting wounded four people in Englewood, two of them fatally.

Police work the scene in the 4400 block of West Jackson in West Garfield Park, Wednesday, April 27, 2022.

Police work the scene in the 4400 block of West Jackson in West Garfield Park, Wednesday, April 27, 2022.

Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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