(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A woman was killed and a man critically wounded in a shooting Monday evening in Canaryville on the South Side.
The pair was driving about 5:45 p.m. in the 700 block of West Root Street when a sedan pulled up alongside them and someone inside opened fire, Chicago police said.
The woman, 19, was struck in the body and then crashed their vehicle into a building, police said. She was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Hospital where she was pronounced dead, police said.
The man, 21, suffered a gunshot wound to the chest, police said. He was taken to the same hospital in critical condition, police said.
There was no one in custody.
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