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Driver critically hurt after being shot, crashes into tree in West Garfield Park

Driver shot, crashed into tree in West Garfield Park
Driver shot, crashed into tree in West Garfield Park 00:24

CHICAGO (CBS) --  A man is critically hurt after crashing his car into a tree while trying to escape a shooting in West Garfield Park Thursday morning.

The shooting happened just after 2 a.m. Chicago police blocked off Congress near Karlov where this happened - right next to the Eisenhower Expressway 

A witness told police someone in a black car shot at the man. The victim tried to drive off to escape the gunfire when he hit a curb and then a tree.

He was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital with multiple gunshot wounds to the body in critical condition.

No one is in custody.

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