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2-year-old DeKalb boy abducted; West Garfield Park homicide | March 21, 2018

By Jordan Owen

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Welcome to our morning article rounding up crime (and more) happenings from around the Chicago area overnight.

A 2-year-old boy who was reported missing in a suspected abduction Tuesday night in DeKalb has been found.
Late Tuesday, a 22-year-old woman was driving in Englewood when she was grazed by a bullet.
About 5 p.m. Tuesday, a 42-year-old man was wounded in a shooting Tuesday evening in the South Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
About an hour and a half earlier, a SWAT team was called after a woman was shot Tuesday afternoon in the Rosemoor neighborhood on the Far South Side.
Police are conducting a homicide investigation after finding a man dead with a laceration to his neck Tuesday afternoon at an apartment in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.

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