Man fatally shot outside Howard Street station hours after CTA crash

The man, 30, suffered a gunshot wound to the torso about 2 p.m. in the 1600 block of West Howard Street. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

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At least 26 people were shot in Chicago in the first night of the weekend.

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A man was shot and killed Thursday afternoon outside the Howard Street station in Rogers Park, hours after a Chicago Transit Authority train crash injured 38 people near the station.

Kenneth Sandy, 30, was fighting with another person, who pulled out a handgun and fired shots around 2 p.m. in the 1600 block of West Howard Street, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

He was shot in the torso and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. No arrests were reported.

Less than four hours earlier, a Yellow Line train crashed into a slow-moving snowplow on the tracks near the Howard station, critically injuring three people. Four children, the youngest of whom was 2, were injured, suffering “bumps and bruises.”

None of the injuries was life-threatening.

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