Bullets damage Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Police responded to reports of shots fired near Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial Hospital Friday morning and discovered one of the hospital facility's windows had been struck by bullets, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Chicago police were called to an area near the hospital just before 4:30 a.m. Friday. Officers reportedly discovered two bullet holes in a window at the Northwestern Medicine Digestive Health Center Lavin Family Pavilion, as well as several shell casings.

A Northwestern Memorial Hospital spokesperson told the Chicago Tribune there was no gunfire inside of the building and the shots fired outside the facility were not related to the hospital, the report states.

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