Teen shoots alleged assaulter inside Humboldt Park home: CPD

CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Chicago police are looking for a teenager who allegedly shot a man that was assaulting a woman in a Near West Side home Christmas night.

It was just before 9 p.m. when officers arrived at a Humboldt Park home, southeast of Chicago Avenue and Pulaski.

That's where they said a 16-year-old boy shot a 45-year-old man in the lower back during an assault on a 40-year-old woman.

The man was taken to the hospital in critical condition, and the boy fled the scene.

CPD said the woman attacked by the man did not want medical treatment.

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