Police: 7 Dead, 22 Wounded In Weekend Shootings Across Chicago
(STMW) -- Seven men were killed and at least 22 other people have been wounded in Chicago shootings since Friday evening, police said.
Two armed robbers were shot to death by a liquor store employee Saturday night in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side, according to Chicago Police.
Officers responded to a call of an attempted robbery at Z&S Food and Liquor, 1351 W 87th St, just after 8:30 p.m., authorities said.
Two suspects walked into the store about 30 minutes earlier and announced a robbery. When one of the suspects showed a handgun, a male employee took out his own weapon and fatally shot the two would-be robbers, police said.
They were identified as 15-year-old Keshawn Marzette and 17-year-old William Larson, both of the 8300 block of South Throop, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Earlier Saturday afternoon, a man was killed and a woman was wounded in a Back of the Yards neighborhood shooting on the South Side.
Erick L. Lacey and a woman, both 19, were sitting in a vehicle in the 5200 block of South Peoria Street about 2 p.m. when a white car pulled up behind them and someone inside fired shots, according to police and the medical examiner's office.
Lacey, who lived in the 5100 block of South May Street, was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
The woman was shot in the back and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where her condition was stabilized, police said.
Police are investigating a homicide after they found a man shot to death Friday night in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Emergency crews responded about 9:45 p.m. to the shooting in the 4500 block of West Deming, where they found 37-year-old Matthew Ehrenberg unresponsive inside a home with gunshot wounds to the armpit, according to police and the medical examiner's office.
Ehrenberg, who lived in the same block, was dead at the scene, authorities said.
Police are conducting a homicide investigation, but additional details about the circumstances of the shooting were not immediately available Saturday night.
Less than an hour earlier, a 20-year-old man was shot to death in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side, police said.
Officers responding to a call of shots fired about 9 p.m. found the 20-year-old dead at the scene with multiple gunshot wounds to the head inside a minivan parked in the 6600 block of South Fairfield, police said. The medical examiner's office confirmed the death, but withheld his identity Saturday night, pending notification of his family.
About fifteen minutes earlier, a man was killed and four others were wounded in a Lawndale neighborhood shooting on the Southwest Side. They were standing on a sidewalk in the 1500 block of South Kedzie about 8:45 p.m. when they heard shots and felt pain, according to police.
Raymon Blount, 29, was shot in the shoulder and chest and took himself to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, authorities said. He lived in the 300 block of North Pine.
Two 28-year-old men each shot in the right thigh went to the same hospital, though one drove himself and another was take by ambulance. Their conditions were stabilized, police said. A 21-year-old man shot in the left ankle took himself to Saint Anthony Hospital, where his condition was also stabilized. A 26-year-old man who suffered a graze wound to the right thigh declined medical attention at the scene. Police think the shooting was gang-related.
In the weekend's first fatal shooting, a man was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting in the Ravenswood neighborhood, about half a mile from Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home on the North Side.
An argument broke out about 7:30 p.m. Friday at a party inside an apartment in the 1900 block of West Belle Plaine, police said.
Pablo Ulloa, 25, pulled out a handgun and shot a 23-year-old man in the neck and another 25-year-old man in the abdomen, according to police and the medical examiner's office.
The second 25-year-old then pulled out another gun and shot Ulloa in the chest, police said. Ulloa, of the 4700 block of North Whipple, was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:53 p.m, according to the medical examiner's office.
The other two were taken in critical condition to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
The attack happened about four blocks southwest of Emanuel's home in the 4200 block of North Hermitage.
The most recent nonfatal shooting happened Sunday afternoon in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.
The 15-year-old boy was standing in the 600 block of South California Avenue at 12:02 p.m. when someone exited a car and fired shots, police said. He was shot once in the hip and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition.
At least 14 other people have been shot in Chicago since 5 p.m. Friday.
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2016. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
