Police: 4 Killed, 16 Wounded In Chicago Gun Violence
(STMW) -- Four people were killed and at least 16 others have been wounded in separate shootings in Chicago since Friday afternoon, police said.
The most recent fatal shooting happened about 10 p.m. Friday in the South Side Gresham neighborhood.
Officers responding to a call of shots fired in the 7900 block of South Aberdeen found a 26-year-old man lying on a sidewalk with gunshot wounds to the chest, police said.
He was dead at the scene, police said. The Cook County medical examiner's office could not immediately confirm the fatality.
The other two fatal attacks happened within half an hour of each other earlier Friday evening on the South and West Sides.
About 5:20 p.m., a 24-year-old man was shot dead in the Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side.
Kelvin L. Davis was standing on a sidewalk about 5:20 p.m. in the 1300 block of East 75th Street when a gunman in a gray vehicle shot at him, authorities said.
Davis, who lived in the 7500 block of South Dorchester, was shot in the neck and chest and taken to Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m., authorities said.
About 5 p.m., two men and a woman were outside in the 4200 block of West Grenshaw when a gunman walked up and opened fire, police said.
Both men, ages 28 and 31, suffered gunshot wounds to the head, police said. The older man was found unresponsive on the ground and pronounced dead at the scene. The younger man was found in the driver seat of a bullet-riddled pickup truck and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he later died, authorities said.
The 54-year-old woman was shot in the left leg and taken to Saint Anthony Hospital, where her condition stabilized, police said.
The medical examiner's office confirmed the fatalities but did not release further details Friday night.
The most recent nonfatal shooting happened Saturday morning in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
A 23-year-old man was walking in the 6700 block of South Union about 10 a.m. when he was shot in the left leg, police said. A family member took him to Saint Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center, where he was listed in good condition.
Area South detectives are questioning two people of interest in connection with the shooting, police said.
Several hours earlier, two men were critically injured in a Back of the Yards neighborhood shooting on the South Side.
The men, both 19, were sitting in a car about 4:15 a.m. in the 5300 block of South Winchester when someone on a bike rode up and asked them if they were gang members before opening fire, police said.
The driver was shot in the left leg and right hip, and the passenger in the chest and arms, police said.
The man behind the wheel took them to a gas station a quarter-mile southwest in the 2000 block of West Garfield, where emergency crews were called. They were both taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said.
At least 12 others have been shot since Friday afternoon.
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