A 14-year-old boy was shot and critically wounded in Englewood Wednesday night, Chicago police said.

       The teen was standing on a sidewalk in the 1400 block of West 73rd Street around 8:20 p.m. when someone in a dark-colored sedan opened fire, police said. He was struck in the head by gunfire.

       Officers work the scene where a 14-year-old boy was shot in the head near the 1400 block of West 73rd Street in the Englewood neighborhood Wednesday Jan. 12, 2022 in Chicago. Earlier in the day a 14-year-old boy was fatally shot on the street on 2200 block of West Adams nearly half a mile from the United Center. (Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune)

       Paramedics took the boy to Comer Children’s Hospital in ‘grave’ condition, fire department spokesman Larry Merritt said.

       No one was in custody, and detectives were investigating.

       The teen was the second 14-year-old struck by gunfire Wednesday. Earlier in the day, around 4 p.m., a teen was fatally shot on the Near West Side.

       sfreishtat@chicagotribune.com

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