The new year’s first apparent victim of gun violence was a 29-year-old man shot in the mouth and shoulder after a fight broke out at a bar on the West Side, police said.

 

About 1:15 a.m., a fight erupted inside a bar located in the 5000 block of West Madison Street in the Austin neighborhood, said police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro, citing preliminary information.

 

The 29-year-old man was allegedly involved in the fight, which saw another man get hit on the head with a beer bottle, Alfaro said. The 29-year-old man was shot as he left the bar, police said.

 

He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where his condition stabilized, Alfaro said.

 

About 2 a.m., a 22-year-old man was shot in both legs and the scrotum during a fight at a house party on the Southwest Side, police said. The 22-year-old man was at a party in the basement of a house in the 9700 block of South Beverly Avenue when he got into a fight with another man, said police News Affairs Officer Amina Greer.

 

The fight escalated and the 22-year-old man was shot, Greer said, adding that he was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where his condition stabilized.

 

About 2:40 a.m., a man was shot in the stomach in the 11700 block of South Sangamon Street in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, police said. Police learned of the shooting after the man, believed to be in his 20s, walked into the emergency room of Metro South Medical Center in Blue Island, police said.

 

The man was later transferred to Advocate Christ, where he was listed in critical condition, police said.

 

Also around 2:40 a.m., a 17-year-old boy was shot in the arm near North and Kedzie avenues in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, Greer said. He was listed in good condition at Norwegian-American Hospital, Greer said.

 

About 3:50 a.m., a teenage girl and a man were shot outside in the 3800 block of South Wells Street in the Fuller Park neighborhood, Greer said.

 

The 17-year-old girl was shot in the leg, Greer said, and the 30-year-old man was shot in the back.

 

Paramedics took the man to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County and the girl to Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, Greer said, adding that both were listed in fair condition. 

 

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