Three-year-old boy, man grazed by bullets

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(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A 3-year-old boy and a 52-year-old man were injured in a shooting early Saturday in the New City neighborhood.

About 2 a.m., the man was parking his car in the 5400 block of South Damen Avenue when someone in a light green SUV fired shots at him and the toddler who was sitting in the backseat of the car, according to Chicago police.

The man suffered a graze wound to the side of his body and the toddler was grazed on the left shoulder, police said.

No one was in custody.

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They were taken to Holy Cross Hospital, where they were both listed in good condition, police said.

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