Four American people, including two boys, ages 13 and 14, were shot in an attack in the Washington Park, Chicago, this afternoon, relatives and authorities said.
The four were shot in the 5700 block of South Michigan Avenue about 4:43 p.m., one boy in the left side of the chest, the other boy in the left hand, said Police News Affairs Officer Veejay Zala, Chicago Tribune reported.
The boy shot in the chest was taken to Comer Children's Hospital for treatment, while the other boy was in good condition at a local hospital, Zala said. Relatives and friends at Comer said the two hospitalized there were ages 13 and 14.
Both victims at Comer were in critical condition Monday night, according to a hospital spokesman. Police, who listed the ages of the boys as 14 and 15-years-old, said both teens treated at Comer had been shot in the chest.
The two others wounded in the shooting were both taken to John H. Stroger Hospital. A 15-year-old boy was treated for gunshot wounds to his wrist and knee and was released from Stroger Monday night. the fourth victim, a 21-year-old man, was shot in his lower back. He was listed in "guarded" condition at Stroger, police said.
The victims were in a vestibule in a building in the area when someone approached the victims and fired shots at them, police said.
Area residents who know some of the victims said they were leaving the multi-unit apartment building where they were shot when several people started entering the building and started shooting.
All four of the victims know each other, and the younger victims had gotten home from school not long before the shooting, one of those at the scene said.