6 Killed, 14 Wounded In Presidents Day Weekend Shootings
CHICAGO (STMW) -- Presidents Day weekend shootings have left six people dead and at least 14 others wounded across the city, according to Chicago Police.
The latest homicide happened when two men were discovered shot to death Sunday morning in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood on the South Side.
Officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 5000 block of South Champlain at 10:50 a.m. and discovered two people unresponsive with gunshot wounds inside an apartment, police said. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
Earlier Sunday, another man was found shot to death 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 neighborhood 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 on the South Side.
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 shooting happened late Sunday in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
A 29-year-old woman and 35-year-old man were sitting in a vehicle in the 0 – 100 block of West 101st Street about 11:50 p.m. when they both heard gunfire and felt pain, police said. The man suffered gunshot wounds to the left and right shoulders, while the woman was shot in the left shoulder, police said. He drove them to Roseland Community Hospital, where both of their conditions were stabilized.
Less than 20 minutes earlier, a 22-year-old man was shot in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side. He was walking in the 8800 block of South Indiana Avenue at 11:35 p.m. when he heard shots and felt pain, police said. He was shot in the upper left side of his chest and taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where his condition was stabilized.
About 9 p.m., a 34-year-old man was shot in the Southwest Side Ashburn neighborhood. He was getting into a vehicle in the 3400 block of West 84th Place when another vehicle drove by, and a back seat passenger got out and fired shots. The man suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen and was taken to Christ Medical Center in good condition.
Less than an hour earlier, a man was shot in the Archer Heights neighborhood on the Southwest Side. At 8:10 p.m., a 23-year-old man was in a vehicle in the 4700 block of South Hamlin Avenue when someone from the street fired shots. The man suffered a gunshot wound to the back and showed up at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn where he was listed in serious condition, police said.
At least seven more people have been wounded in other shootings since 5 p.m. Friday.
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