Two men were injured early Saturday morning in a drive-by shooting in south Evanston, police said.

The two men — a 23-year-old resident of Waukegan, Illinois, and a 22-year-old resident of Round Lake Beach, Illinois — sustained non-life threatening injuries, officials said. The 22-year-old man was shot in the arm and back, and the 23-year-old man was shot in the head and groin area, officials said.

Evanston police responded around 3:50 a.m. Saturday to a report of shots fired in the area of Howard Street and Dodge Avenue in Evanston, officials said. Officers did not find anyone who had been shot, but found several shell casings.

Shortly after, two people with gunshot wounds came to the emergency room at Presence Saint Francis Hospital, 355 Ridge Ave., police said.

An initial investigation discovered that four people — including the two who were shot — had just left a club in Chicago and were driving on Howard Street, when another car pulled up next to theirs and fired several shots into their car, police said. The car from which shots were fired then drove away on North California Avenue toward Chicago.

Detectives are still investigating, police said. The 22-year-old is in good condition and the 23-year-old is in serious but stable condition, officials said.

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