Police: 3 Killed, 12 Wounded In Chicago Weekend Shootings
(STMW) -- Shootings since Friday night have left three men dead and at least 13 people wounded across the city, according to police.
A 22-year-old man was shot to death Sunday afternoon in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.
The man was shot multiple times at 2:10 p.m. in the 9900 block of South State Street, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The Cook County medical examiner's office could not immediately confirm the death.
Details about the circumstances of the shooting were not immediately known.
Saturday evening, a 21-year-old man was shot to death in the South Side Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.
Eric Turner was standing outside near a home in the 7300 block of South Dorchester at 7 p.m. when someone walked out of a gangway and fired shots before running off, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Turner, who lived on the same block where he was shot, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died at 7:43 p.m., according to the medical examiner's office.
Early Saturday, a 32-year-old man was shot and killed in a Back of the Yards neighborhood drive-by.
About 3:40 a.m., he was riding as passenger in a car in the 4500 block of South Hermitage when an SUV pulled alongside and someone opened fire, striking him in the side, police said.
He showed up at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where later he was pronounced dead, police said. The medical examiner's office has yet to confirm the fatality.
In the most recent nonfatal shooting, a man was shot at 1:25 p.m. in the North Side Rogers Park neighborhood.
A 48-year-old man was shot in the leg in the 6900 block of North Ashland, police said. He was taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston in good condition.
At least 12 other people have been injured—two of them critically—in shootings since 9:30 p.m. Friday.
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