A 17-year-old boy on his way to school was shot in the leg as he walked to Gage Park High School this morning, authorities said.

At least one person was being questioned, police said.

Police and school officials said initial information that the shooting may have happened during a large fight was incorrect, and was based on information from 911 calls.

The teen was taken in fair to serious condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center, said Chicago Fire Department spokesman Quention Curtis. The teen’s injuries appeared not to be life-threatening, Curtis

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At least four people were wounded in separate shootings overnight on

the South and West Sides, officials said.

The first shooting happened on the South Side in the city’s South

Shore neighborhood, police said.

Officers responded about 8:33 p.m. to the 7100 block of South

Merrill Avenue and found a 33-year-old man who was struck in

an apparent drive-by, police said.

Preliminary reports said the man was walking westbound on 71st Street when a vehicle traveling eastbound at a high rate of speed approached. Someone

leaned out of the vehicle and fired several shots at the victim, police said.

The man was taken in good condition to Northwestern

Memorial Hospital with a gunshot wound to his thigh, police said.

About 11:15 p.m., two people were shot in the city’s

Longwood Manor neighborhood on the South Side.

Officers responded to the 1300 block of West 98th

Place and found a 16-year-old boy and a 19-year-old man

with gunshot wounds.

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