6 Dead, 15 Wounded In Chicago Weekend Shootings
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Six people were killed and 15 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday evening.
A 14-year-old boy was the latest homicide victim early Saturday. At 1:23 a.m., DeMarco Webster Jr. was on the street in the 500 block of South Central in the West Side Austin neighborhood when someone in a dark-colored car shot him in the torso, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office. Webster, who lived in the 700 block of South Kedzie, died after being taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood.
At 12:04 a.m. in the South Side Auburn Gresham neighborhood, someone walked up to 25-year-old Martell Turner as he sat in a vehicle in the 1200 block of West 79th Street and shot him in the chest and abdomen, authorities said. Turner was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died. He lived in the 7900 block of South Throop.
Five minutes before that, officers responding to a call of a person shot found a 30-year-old man near 78th Street and South Shore Drive with a gunshot wound to the head, police said. He died at Christ Medical Center. Authorities have not released his name.
The weekend's first killings happened about 10:20 p.m. Friday at a Back of the Yards gas station. Chiquita Ford and Brian Fields, both 30, were sitting in a vehicle at the station in the 1900 block of West Garfield when a gunman walked up and fired at them, hitting the woman in the side and the man in the chest, authorities said. They were dead at the scene. Ford lived in suburban Westchester; Fields was from the 7200 block of South Wolcott.
The latest nonfatal shooting happened Saturday afternoon in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.
The 24-year-old woman was standing near Independence and Roosevelt about 12:30 p.m. when a newer-model silver vehicle pulled up with a male and female inside, according to police. The male passenger fired at her before vehicle drove away. The woman was shot in the right side of the torso and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition. A police source said the shooting appeared to be narcotics-related.
About 20 minutes earlier, a man was shot in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side. The 19-year-old was in the 3900 block of West Jackson at 12:10 p.m. when a red vehicle pulled up and someone got out and fired at him, police said. The shooter then got back in the vehicle, which drove away. The man was shot in the buttocks and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition.
At least 13 more people were wounded in other shootings between 4:45 p.m. Friday and 2 a.m. Saturday.
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