CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - A good Samaritan is fighting for his life after trying to help a victim of a carjacking in Austin overnight.
A woman was being beaten and carjacked by four men or young men on the West Side when, Chicago Police said, a man stepped in.
It was just after 2 a.m. near Linder and LeMoyne when police said one of the attackers shot the 20-year-old victim in the chest.
Paramedics took him to the hospital in critical condition.
The woman was not injured, but the thieves took her 2011 Volkswagen.
No one is in custody.
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