Latest Weekend Violence Tally: Four Shot Dead, At Least 49 More Wounded
(STMW) -- Four people were killed, including a 15-year-old girl, and at least 49 more have been wounded in shootings across Chicago over Memorial Day weekend.
The most recent homicide happened Saturday evening in the Fuller Park neighborhood on the South Side.
Garvin Whitmore, 27, was sitting in the driver seat of a vehicle with 26-year-old Ashley Harrison about 5:20 p.m. in the 200 block of West Root when someone walked up to the vehicle and shot the man in the head, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Whitmore, of the 5800 block of West 63rd Place, was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:29 p.m., authorities said.
After he was shot, Harrison got out of the vehicle, fired several shots as the shooter ran away and threw the weapon to the ground, police said. No one else was injured.
Harrison was charged with reckless discharge of a firearm and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon without a FOID card, and ordered held on a $250,000 bond at a Sunday hearing, authorities said. As of Sunday night, no one was in custody for the homicide.
Earlier Saturday, a 23-year-old man was shot to death in the Portage Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Damien Cionzynski got into a fight with two other males inside a business about 5:15 a.m. in the 6300 block of West Montrose, according to police and the medical examiner's office.
Cionzynski was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. He lived in the 4400 block of North Nashville Avenue in Harwood Heights.
A few hours earlier, 15-year-old Veronica Lopez was passenger in a vehicle with a 28-year-old man in the 2400 block of North Lake Shore Drive when a black Nissan pulled alongside them and someone inside opened fire about 1:30 a.m., authorities said.
They drove to Presence Saint Joseph Hospital, and the girl was later transferred to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 2:59 a.m., authorities said. She lived in the 5100 block of West Fullerton.
The man was shot in the arm and suffered a graze wound to the head, police said. His condition had stabilized. Investigators think the shooting was either gang- or road rage-related.
The holiday weekend's first fatal shooting happened late Friday, when a 25-year-old man was shot to death in the Ashburn neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Just before 11 p.m., Mark Lindsey was sitting in a vehicle parked near his home in the 3700 block of West 75th Place when a gunman walked up and shot him repeatedly across the chest and body, authorities said. Lindsey tried to drive away, but crashed into another vehicle on the block.
He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 11:34 p.m., authorities said.
The latest nonfatal shooting happened early Monday in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side.
A 19-year-old got off a bus about 6:15 a.m. and was walking in the 6400 block of South King Drive when someone came out of a building nearby and opened fire, police said. The man ran away, but was shot in the leg.
He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was listed in good condition, police said.
At least 47 more people have been wounded in other Chicago shootings since 9:25 p.m. Friday.
Fifty-five people were shot, 12 fatally, in Memorial Day weekend shootings in 2015.
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