An 18-year-old man was fatally shot while sitting in a vehicle in the West Side’s North Austin neighborhood this morning. A 19-year-old woman was also wounded, police said.
Darnell Choice of the 2600 block of West Potomac Avenue was shot in the 1700 block of North Luna Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.Choice was pronounced dead at 4:59 a.m. at Mount Sinai Hospital, a medical examiner’s spokeswoman said.
About 4 a.m., both victims were sitting in a vehicle parked in an alley when they were shot, according to a release from police News Affairs. The man was shot in his leg, according to preliminary police reports. The woman suffered a gunshot wound to her back and was taken to Illinois Masonic, the release said.
Grand Central Area detectives were investigating.
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