27-year-old Yanong Woods killed, 10-year-old boy grazed in East Garfield Park shooting

Yanong Woods was killed and a 10-year-old boy was wounded in a Saturday afternoon shooting in the East Garfield Park neighborhood.

Just after 1 p.m., the 27-year-old Woods was standing outside in the 3800 block of West Madison when a gunman walked up and shot him in the chest, knee and thigh, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Woods, known to friends as Boddie Sosa or Hue’Heff Woods, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 1:35 p.m. He lived in the 3100 block of West Huron.

A 10-year-old boy was grazed by a bullet in the shooting and was taken to Stroger in good condition, according to the Chicago Fire Department.

No one was in custody for the attack.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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