Police: 5 Killed, 9 Wounded In Presidents Day Weekend Shootings Shootings
(STMW) -- Presidents Day weekend shootings have left four people dead and at least nine others wounded across the city, according to Chicago Police.
The latest homicide happened early Sunday in the Longwood Manor neighborhood on the South Side.
A 22-year-old man was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the back about 1 a.m. inside a vehicle in the 9700 block of South Sangamon. Police said he had been driving southbound on Sangamon when he was shot before crashing his vehicle.
He was taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The Cook County medical examiner's office did not immediately confirm the fatality.
Saturday morning, a 27-year-old woman was gunned down while trying to intervene in a fight at an Austin neigbborhood party on the West Side.
Two people got into an argument about 5:25 a.m. at the party in the 300 block of South Cicero. Latania Anderson, 27, stepped in between the two males to break them up, but one of them shot her in the head, according to police and the medical examiner's office.
Anderson, who lived in the 4700 block of West Maypole, was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
Less than two hours earlier, a Back of the Yards neighborhood shooting left a man dead.
Officers responding to a call of shots fired about 3:50 a.m. in the 4700 block of South Laflin Street found 24-year-old Lorenzo Garcia outside with a gunshot wound to the head, authorities said.
Garcia, who lived in the 4800 block of South Laflin, was taken to St. Bernard Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
About 2 a.m., one man was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting in the West Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
The three men— ages 22, 23 and 25— were in a vehicle shortly after 2 a.m. in the 6800 block of South Lawndale when the occupants of another vehicle started shooting at them, police said.
They showed up at Holy Cross Hospital and were later transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said.
The 23-year-old, later identified as Vincent Avila of the 5400 block of South Moody Avenue, was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at 5:30 a.m., authorities said.
The 25-year-old was listed in serious condition with a neck wound and the 22-year-old was in good condition with wounds to the right wrist and left shoulder, police said.
The most recent nonfatal shootings happened within an hour of each other early Sunday.
At 4:17 a.m., a 31-year-old man was driving in the 3400 block of West Beach in the Humboldt Park neighborhood when another vehicle drove alongside him and someone inside opened fire, police said. He was shot in the back and he drove himself to Norwegian American Hospital before being transferred to Stroger Hospital, where his condition stabilized, police said.
About 3:30 a.m., a 17-year-old boy was shot in the left leg during a possible drive-by attack in Portage Park's 4500 block of North Lockwood on the Northwest Side. His condition was stabilized at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, police said.
At least five more people have been wounded in other shootings since 5 p.m. Friday.
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