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In a troubling incident on Chicago’s South Side, a young girl was among three individuals wounded in a shooting, according to the police.
The victims fortunately managed to survive what was described as a hail of bullets and were reported to be in stable condition following the attack.
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The shooting took place shortly after 4:45 p.m. at the Lake Meadows Shopping Center, situated at the intersection of East 35th Street and South King Drive in the Bronzeville neighborhood, right outside a Baskin Robbins and Subway.
Police reported that those injured included an 8-year-old girl, a 28-year-old woman, and a 24-year-old man. They were present at the location when a dark-colored SUV pulled up, and someone inside the vehicle opened fire on them.
The young girl sustained a gunshot wound to her foot, the woman was hit in the knee, and the man suffered multiple gunshot injuries affecting his arm and chest. All three were transported to local hospitals and are currently in good condition, according to the Chicago Police Department.
Storefronts were left shattered with glass and bullet casings strewn across the South Side parking lot where the three people were nearly killed.
The shooting happened in the Lake Meadows Shopping Center near 35th & King Drive in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood, right outside a Dunkin’ and Baskin Robbin’s and a Subway restaurant.
“It’s really saddening to know that kids are always never safe,” shopping center patron Ruwaida Henry said.
Their lives were spared, yet concern lingered with patrons of the busy shopping center.
“I hope for this to end,” Henry said. “We don’t have to be concerned about our safety all the time. A trip to the coffee shop, the Subway, the nail shop shouldn’t be this frightening.”
Chicago police haven’t said if anyone was taken into custody, only adding that area detectives are investigating
No further information was immediately available.
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