Teen Girls Wounded In Separate Shootings
Updated 6/15/11 11:06 p.m.
CHICAGO (STMW) - Two teenage girls were wounded in separate shootings Wednesday evening on the South Side.
The first shooting happened at 5:07 p.m. when a 15-year-old girl was shot in the neck in the 600 block of East 42nd Street, police News Affairs Officer Darryl Baety said.
Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford said the girl was taken in "stable" condition to University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital. It was unclear if the girl was shot or suffered a graze wound, he said.
The girl was on the street when a black Chevrolet Camaro drove past and somebody inside opened fire, striking the girl, Baety said.
At 5:32 p.m., a 14-year-old girl standing on a sidewalk near South State and 116th streets was shot in the buttocks, police said. She was walking down the street when she heard several gunshots and felt pain.
She was taken in "stable" condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said.
Wentworth Area detectives are investigating the first shooting and Calumet Area detectives the second. Nobody is in custody in either attack, police said.
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