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Officers Save Man Shot During Armed Robbery In Portage Park

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Quick thinking police officers helped save a man who was shot during an armed robbery on Chicago's Northwest Side.

Portage Park Robbery
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Police say the man was standing outside near Belmont and Menard in the Portage Park neighborhood Saturday afternoon when two men in a white SUV pulled up alongside him and tried to take his bag. A scuffle ensued, and the man was shot in the leg.

Arriving officers used a tourniquet on the victim's leg to stop the bleeding. He was taken to the hospital seriously hurt.

No one is in custody.

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