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Two teens wounded in Rogers Park shooting

Posted by loyolastudentdispatch on July 14, 2011

Two teens were wounded Wednesday night in a drive-by shooting in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood, the Chicago Tribune reports.

The shooting happened about 7:48 p.m. in an alley on the 6600 block of North Newgard Avenue, Police News Affairs Officer Daniel O’Brien told the Tribune.

Preliminary reports said that two 15-year-old boys were standing near the alley when the occupants of a passing car shouted gang slogans at them and then opened fire, the Tribune reports.

Both victims were taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, where each was treated for a gunshot wound to the leg, police said.

Police hadn’t located the shooters, who fled the scene.

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