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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Emmanuel Camarillo

Venezuelan migrant shot while holding her son outside South Side police station

Asylum-seekers, mostly from Venezuela, camp outside the Grand Crossing police station at 7040 S. Cottage Grove Ave. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere / Sun-Times)

Yerlianny Romero says she was standing outside the Grand Crossing police station with her young son in her arms when gunmen rolled up in a Jeep Grand Cherokee and started shooting.

Romero, 28, a Venezuelan asylum-seeker who has been living temporarily at the South Side police station, was wounded in the buttocks. A man, also a migrant from Venezuela, got hit in his right thigh, police said.

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