A 14-year-old boy was in critical condition after he was shot twice in the head while sitting in a parked car in Morgan Park on the Far South Side Thursday morning.
The attack happened around 12:10 a.m. when someone in another car opened fire in the 1600 block of West Waseca Place, Chicago police said.
The teen was taken to Roseland Hospital by a family member and then transported to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said. He was listed in critical condition.
The man, 29, was grazed in the head and refused medical treatment. No one was in custody.
A few hours earlier, a 16-year-old boy and a man in his early 20s were shot on the West Side. They were outside in the 400 block of North Springfield Avenue when someone fired from a passing black SUV about 8 p.m., police said.
The teen was struck in the neck and taken to Stroger Hospital in fair condition, police said. The 23-year-old man was shot in the foot and went to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was in good condition.
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