Man Shot To Death In Garfield Park
Officers responding to a call of shots fired about 1:25 a.m. found the 27-year-old man lying in the street with a gunshot wound to the head in the 3900 block of West Congress Parkway.
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Officers responding to a call of shots fired about 1:25 a.m. found the 27-year-old man lying in the street with a gunshot wound to the head in the 3900 block of West Congress Parkway.
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A man was shot in the head in West Garfield Park neighborhood Sunday afternoon.
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A 35-year-old man was seriously wounded when he was shot three times in the Garfield Park neighborhood early Wednesday, police said.
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A woman was critically wounded early Sunday in a shooting in the West Side Garfield Park neighborhood.
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