Two women were shot and wounded around 12:15 a.m. Friday as they rode in a vehicle in the 2400 block of North Meade Avenue in Belmont Central on the Northwest Side.

The police said one of them, 19 years old, was shot in the neck and taken in critical condition to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. The other, 18, was shot in the abdomen and also was being treated at Loyola, police said.