Girl, 14, critically wounded in shooting on Southeast Side

The teen was shot in her neck about 4:50 p.m. in the 2900 block of East 97th Street, Chicago police said.

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Chicago police work the scene where a 14-year-old girl was critically wounded in a shooting in the 2900 block of East 97th Street in Jeffery Manor neighborhood in Chicago’s Southeast Side, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Chicago police work the scene where a 14-year-old girl was critically wounded in a shooting in the 2900 block of East 97th Street in Jeffery Manor neighborhood in Chicago’s Southeast Side, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

A 14-year-old girl was critically wounded in a shooting Thursday afternoon in Vet’s Park on the Southeast Side.

She was shot in her neck about 4:50 p.m. in the 2900 block of East 97th Street, Chicago police said.

She was taken to Trinity Hospital, where she was listed in critical condition, police said.

No one was in custody.

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