Boy, 9, suffers graze wound to head during Marquette Park shooting

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A 9-year-old boy suffered a graze wound to the head during a shooting Saturday evening in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

At 8:11 p.m., the boy was grazed in the head in the 2500 block of West 69th Street when someone fired shots at the vehicle he was traveling in, according to Chicago Police.

He was taken to Holy Cross Hospital in good condition, police said.

The shooting may be related to an altercation between the vehicle’s driver and a person who fired shots, police said.

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