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Via Chicago Sun Times

Two men were killed and at least 12 other people were injured in a spate gun violence across Chicago from Wednesday morning through early Thursday.

The most recent fatal shooting happened about 2 a.m. Thursday at an Austin neighborhood gas station on the West Side.

A 20-year-old man was outside the station in the 100 block of South Cicero when someone walked up and shot him multiple times, police said.

He was unresponsive when emergency crews arrived and was later pronounced dead at the scene, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. His identity was withheld pending family notification.

About an hour-and-a-half earlier, a 43-year-old man was found shot to death on a Chatham neighborhood sidewalk on the South Side.

Officers responding to a call of shots fired about 12:30 a.m. found Juan Warrior unresponsive with gunshot wounds to the side of the chest in the 8100 block of South Normal, authorities said. Warrior, of the 6500 block of South Wolcott, was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:49 a.m.

The most recent nonfatal shooting happened just before midnight in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.[…]

About 4:15 p.m., a 17-year-old girl was shot in the chest in the Morgan Park neighborhood on the Far South Side, police said. She was shot in the 1300 block of West 111th Street and taken to Christ Medical Center in serious condition.

The day’s first shooting was reported about 10:30 a.m.

A man walked into Saint Bernard Hospital at 326 W. 64th Street with gunshot wounds to his hip and back, police said. He told investigators he was shot in the 6300 block of South Artesian, but no crime scene was found.

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