15-year-old boy grazed by gunfire in South Shore

About 3:50 a.m. Tuesday, the teen was walking in the 7700 block of South Essex Avenue when someone in a dark-colored vehicle opened fire, Chicago police said.

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A teen boy was grazed by gunfire early Tuesday morning on the South Side.

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A 15-year-old boy was grazed by gunfire early Tuesday in South Shore.

About 3:50 a.m., the teen was walking in the 7700 block of South Essex Avenue when someone in a dark-colored vehicle opened fire, Chicago police said.

He was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital with a graze wound to his right arm and was listed in good condition, police said.

No one was in custody.

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