21 People Shot In Chicago In First 11 Hours Of Weekend; 4 Dead
CHICAGO (CBS) -- At least 21 people were shot during an 11-hour burst of violence to start the city's weekend, leaving four dead, according to Chicago Police.
The latest killing happened about 1:45 a.m. Saturday at a gas station in the South Side Chatham neighborhood, where officers responding to a call of a person shot found a man in his 20s with multiple gunshot wounds inside a vehicle. He was dead at the scene, police said.
Forty-five minutes earlier, 54-year-old Cynthia D. Richardson was found dead, shot in the neck on the lawn of a West Englewood neighborhood home in the 5900 block of South Winchester, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office. She lived in the 2100 block of West 63rd Street.
Late Friday, an 18-year-old man was slain about eight blocks away from the other Chatham killing. Deon Virges ran into a store about 11 p.m. in the first block of East 75th Street, collapsed and died of a gunshot wound to neck, authorities said. Virges lived in the 7500 block of South Calumet.
The weekend's first homicide happened about 5 p.m. Friday in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side. A 19-year-old man who had been shot in the chest was found in the alley of the 4700 block of West Congress, and he died at Mount Sinai Hospital, authorities said.
Authorities withheld two of the victims' names pending notification of their families.
The latest nonfatal shooting happened about 3:45 a.m. Saturday in the Wrightwood neighborhood on the Southwest Side, where two people got out of a white vehicle and opened fire on a 19-year-old man and 22-year-old woman who were walking into a home in the 7900 block of South Francisco, hitting her in the shoulder and him in the arm and leg. Both were taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where their conditions were stabilized, police said.
About 1:30 a.m., five people were shot in Uptown's 4800 block of North Winthrop. The victims — a 36-year-old man shot in the buttocks, a 27-year-old man in the leg, a 17-year-old boy in the back, a 20-year-old woman in both legs and another 36-year-old man with an arm wound — showed up at Illinois Masonic Medical Center. All were listed in good condition, police said.
At least 10 more people were shot in other attacks across Chicago between 5:45 p.m. Friday and 2:45 a.m. Saturday.
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