Three Critically Wounded In Gang-Related Shooting
CHICAGO (STMW) - Three men were critically injured in a gang-related shooting Saturday on the South Side.
The men, all in their 20s, were shot at 1:18 p.m. near East 57th Street and South Calumet Avenue in the Washington Park neighborhood, a Chicago police spokesman said.
A 20-year-old man was shot in the head and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, a 25-year-old man was shot in the leg and taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, and a 24-year-old man was shot in the buttocks and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said.
The man shot in the head was fortunate because the bullet did not enter his skull but skimmed around it, authorities said.
A friend of his, Simone Malone, was nearby, heard the gunfire and talked to the man just after he was shot.
The victim said he saw two men approach him and his friends and just started shooting.
"He was just saying he didn't know what was going on," Malone, 23, said.
Police, however, said the shooting may have been a drive-by and say it was gang-related. The victims were on the street when a vehicle drove by and someone started firing, police said, citing preliminary information.
Paramedics found the men wounded in an alley under the elevated train tracks and took them in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital and John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, authorities said.
Wentworth Area detectives are investigating.
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