Man shot in neck on Red Line

He was on the train in the 100 block of West Cermak Road when someone shot him, police said.

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A man was critically wounded in a shooting on a CTA Red Line train in the South Loop Wednesday night.

The man, 31, was shot in his neck while on the train around 7:20 p.m., Chicago police said.

He got off the train at the Cermak-Chinatown stop in the 100 block of West Cermak Road, police said. Paramedics took him to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

No one was in custody, police said.

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