The scene of the shooting is just blocks from Woodlawn Center South, where Mayor Rahm Emanuel is scheduled to meet later today with U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan, Sen. Dick Durbin and Rep. Bobby Rushto discuss a program to revitalize the blighted neighborhood (AND STILL THE LIBERALS DON'T GET IT).
The four male victims, ranging in age from 14 to 18, were sitting on a porch in the 6200 block of South Rhodes Avenue at about 9:40 p.m. when a gunman inside a silver vehicle pulled up and fired into the group.
The 14-year-old was struck in the right thigh, a 15-year-old in the left hip and left thigh, the 18-year-old man in the lower back, and a 17-year-old suffered a graze wound to his left thigh.
All were taken to area hospitals in serious-to-critical condition but were expected to live, according to investigators.
Just two days before the wounding of the four teens, a 15-year-old Julian High School student was shot in the back three blocks away.
Residents who lined the streets in the moments following Tuesday night's shooting quickly fled into their homes, leaving the street almost empty just an hour later.
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