A Bowen High School sophomore was killed and another student wounded in a shooting Wednesday afternoon in the South Chicago neighborhood on the South Side, officials said.

The victims, both males, 16 and 18, were taken to hospitals in serious to critical condition, according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Quention Curtis.

The 16-year-old, Deantonio Goss of the 8400 block of South Colfax Avenue, was eventually pronounced dead at 3:52 p.m. at Stroger Hospital, according to a spokeswoman for the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The 18-year-old was being treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Both victims attended Bowen, which is a few blocks from the site of the shooting, said Chicago Public Schools spokeswoman Monique Bond.

The shooting happened in the 8600 block of South Saginaw Avenue, according to the medical examiner’s office.

The 16-year-old was a sophomore and the 18-year-old is a senior, Bond said.

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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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17-year-old boy was shot and killed outside a gas station in the South Chicago neighborhood Tuesday afternoon, officials said.

Cojuan Harper, of the 2500 block of East 76th Street, was pronounced dead at 6:28 p.m. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Harper suffered multiple gunshot wounds, he said.

According to Chicago police, Harper was gang-affiliated, but the motive for his slaying wasn’t known.

The shooting happened about 5:40 p.m. in the 2900 block of East 83rd Street.

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