Chicago shootings: 28 shot, 2 fatally, Tuesday

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Twenty-eight people were shot, two of them fatally, Tuesday in Chicago.

Both of the day’s fatal shootings occurred at 1:05 p.m. — one in South Shore on the South Side and the other in Humboldt Park on the West Side.

In South Shore, a 26-year-old man was shot to death in the 2000 block of East 70th Street.

He was sitting in a car about when someone in another vehicle got out and fired shots, police said. The man was hit in the chest and pronounced dead on the scene.

A 27-year-old man was killed in the Humboldt Park shooting.

He was driving in the 3300 block of West Chicago Avenue when someone pulled alongside in a vehicle and opened fire, police said. The man was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at the scene.

In the day’s latest shooting, a 29-year-old man was wounded in Gresham on the South Side.

He was standing outside about 11:05 p.m. in the 8500 block of South Carpenter Avenue when he heard gunshots and felt pain, police said. He was struck in the back and leg, and taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn for treatment in fair condition.

The man told officers he did not see where the shots came from, police said.

A 20-year-old woman was shot in Rogers Park on the North Side.