20-year-old Iveill Hudson was killed and a 60-year-old woman injured in shooting in Austin

Twenty-year-old Iveill Hudson was killed and a 60-year-old woman was wounded in a shooting Thursday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood.

Hudson was standing on the corner about 1:45 p.m. in the 5700 block of West Chicago and talking on a cellphone when someone walked up and fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Hudson, who lived about a block from where he was killed, was shot in the abdomen and leg, and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 5:04 p.m., authorities said.

The woman was shot in the leg and was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, but was later transferred to Stroger, police said. Her condition had stabilized.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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