Man survives being shot twice - 9 hours apart

A Chicago man is recovering from being shot - twice within nine hours, police say. The 23-year-old man, who police would not identify, was shot twice Friday morning in different neighbourhoods and survived.

He told police he was shot early on Friday in the Chatham neighbourhood, took a bus to the hospital, and was treated and released. About nine hours later, he was shot again in the South Shore neighbourhood while sitting in a car, police spokesman Officer Robert Perez said. "Someone is trying real hard to kill this guy," a police source said.



The man said he was shot at about 12:10 a.m. near 79th and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive by a gunman on foot. He told police he was treated for a wound in his armpit and released.

At 9:39 a.m., the same victim was shot in one or both of his legs at 77th and Constance near South Shore High School, police said. His wounds are not considered life-threatening, officials said. Investigators hoping to speak to the man to verify his story said he was being uncooperative.