Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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A 19-year-old man was fatally shot in the South Side's Lake Meadows neighborhood in one of three shootings Monday night on the South and West Sides, officials said.
Torri Stewart, of the 900 block of East 81st Street, was shot in the head about 8:20 p.m. as he sat in a vehicle in the 3100 block of South Rhodes Avenue, authorities said.
He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:41 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Later, about 9:30 p.m., four teenagers were shot in 5200 block of West Iowa Street, in the West Side's South Austin neighborhood.
The teens had been part of a large group involved in a fight on the street when a light-colored car pulled up and at least one person inside opened fired, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines said.
Two of the injured, a 14-year-old boy with a graze wound and an 18-year-old woman shot in the arm, were taken to Loretto Hospital. A 19-year-old woman shot in the knee and a 17-year-old girl shot in the leg were both taken to Mount Sinai Hospital.
The conditions of all four teens were stabilized, Gaines said.
Also on the West Side, a 34-year old man was grazed in the shoulder in the 300 block of South Western Avenue, Gaines said. The shooting happened about 10:30 p.m. in the Near West Side neighborhood.
The bullet did not penetrate the man's skin, and he was treated and released from John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County.
No suspects are in custody in the three shootings as detectives investigate.
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