Boy, 13, seriously wounded in South Shore shooting

He was shot in the arm and leg on a sidewalk in the 2100 block of East 71st Place Tuesday, Chicago police said.

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A 13-year-old boy was shot and seriously wounded Tuesday afternoon in the South Shore neighborhood.

He was hit in the arm and leg on a sidewalk in the 2100 block of East 71st Place around 12:30 p.m., Chicago police said.

Paramedics took him to Comer Children’s Hospital, police said.

No one was in custody.

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