Weekend Shooting Death Toll Rises To Four In Chicago, 35 Others Wounded
CHICAGO (STMW) -- Four people were killed — including a 14-year-old boy — and at least 35 others have been wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday night.
The latest homicide happened Sunday morning in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side, according to Chicago Police.
About 5:25 a.m., officers responding to a call of shots fired in the 11700 block of South LaSalle found a man unresponsive inside a car parked in an alley.
He had been shot multiple times and was taken to Roseland Community Hospital, where he later was pronounced dead, police said. His age was not available.
About three hours earlier, six people were shot — one fatally — in an Englewood attack, police said.
At 2:08 a.m., six people were outside in the 5700 block of South LaSalle when another group of people walked out of an alley and started shooting, police said. At least one person in the first group returned fire.
Six people in a vehicle caught in the crossfire were also taken to hospitals when the car flipped over.
A 28-year-old man shot in the chest was taken to Saint Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center, where he later was pronounced dead, police said. The Cook County medical examiner's office did not immediately confirm the fatality.
A 19-year-old woman whose face was grazed by a bullet was also taken to Saint Bernard, police said. She is listed in serious condition.
A 29-year-old woman shot in the face was taken in serious condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, as was a 28-year-old woman who suffered a graze wound to the buttocks. Her condition stabilized, police said.
A 29-year-old man shot in the arm and leg was taken to Stroger Hospital along with a 23-year-old woman shot in the left foot. Their conditions also stabilized, police said.
Saturday evening in Kenwood, a teenage boy was killed and another wounded in a drive-by attack, police said.
The boys, 14 and 15, were outside in the 4400 block of South Greenwood at 7:30 p.m. when someone fired from a passing car, police said.
The younger boy was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The 15-year-old suffered two leg wounds and was taken to the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital.
Witnesses told officers there'd been an altercation in a nearby park before the shooting, but it wasn't clear whether that was connected to the killing.
About 6 p.m., a 38-year-old man was fatally shot in Humboldt Park. He was standing with a group of people in the 1200 block of North Keeler when two people walked up and started shooting.
The man was shot in the back of the neck and pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
The Cook County medical examiner's office did not immediately confirm the deaths.
The most recent non-fatal shooting happened early Sunday at an Edgewater neighborhood gas station on the North Side.
Shortly before 4 a.m., a 35-year-old man got into an argument with someone who pulled out a gun and shot him in the left hip and leg at the station in the 5700 block of North Broadway, police said. A friend drove him to Presence Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he is listed in good condition.
At least 28 other people have been shot across Chicago in separate attacks since 7:20 p.m. Friday.
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