A SWAT team responded to Chicago Lawn Thursday after a person suspected of shooting and critically wounding a man barricaded themselves inside a home.
About 4:30 p.m., a 69-year-old man was in the 5900 block of South Richmond Street when a male approached him and opened fire, Chicago police said.
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The man was struck in the neck and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition, police said.
The alleged gunman then barricaded himself inside a home, police said. A SWAT team was called to the scene.
The incident is ongoing.
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