Man killed, another wounded in Wrightwood shooting

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A man was killed and another was wounded Friday afternoon in a Southwest Side Wrightwood neighborhood shooting.

The men, both 26, were sitting in a car at 3:57 p.m. when someone walked up to them in the 8000 block of South California and fired shots, according to Chicago Police.

One of the men, identified as Sharrod L. Peoples, was shot multiple times in the body and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 4:40 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Peoples lived in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.

The other man was shot in the bicep and his condition was stabilized at Christ Medical Center, police said.

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