3 Dead, At Least 10 Wounded During Sunday Gun Violence
CHICAGO (STMW) -- A 6-year-old girl, a 16-year-old boy and a man were slain and at least ten others wounded so far Sunday in shootings across the city.
Arianna Gibson, 6, of 7417 S. Sangamon St., was shot in the chest and arm at her home early Sunday, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. Arianna was pronounced dead at 7:12 a.m. at University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital.
About 6 a.m. an assailant who was outside a single-family residence in the Englewood neighborhood fired into the living room where Arianna and two teenagers were, hitting them, according to police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli.
The 17-year-old male was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County while the 17-year-old girl was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to Fire Media Affairs spokesman Quention Curtis. Curtis described their conditions as serious, but Mirabelli later said their conditions were good.
Sources said the surviving teens are the little girl's cousins and gunfire erupted as one of them went to answer the door.
In another Englewood attack on the South Side, a teen boy was killed.
At 12:48 a.m. police responded to a report of "shots fired" in the 6900 block of South Oakley Avenue and found a boy identified by the medical examiner's office as Marshaun Taylor, of 6939 S. Bell Ave., lying on the ground, shot multiple times.
Taylor was pronounced dead at 1:30 a.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the medical examiner's office.
In the North Side Rogers Park neighborhood at 12:48 a.m., officers found a man shot in the chest lying on a sidewalk in the 1500 block of West Jonquil Terrace, police said.
The still-unidentified man was pronounced dead at 1:49 a.m. at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, according to the medical examiner's office.
A Rogers Park District police sergeant said the man, as of Sunday afternoon, is a "John Doe'' who had no identification on him.
Other South Side shootings wounded at least two men.
At 12:20 a.m., a 21-year-old man was sitting on a porch when someone shot him in the right calf in the 6800 block of South Bishop Street, Englewood District police Lt. Brent Fidler. who said the attack may be gang-related. The man was taken in good condition to Holy Cross Hospital.
Another shooting occurred about 4 a.m. when someone shot a 29-year-old man in the left arm at 7259 S. Halsted St., Fidler said.
Meanwhile, in the Garfield Park neighborhood, eight people were wounded in two separate shootings early Sunday.
The first occurred about 2:28 a.m. when four men, 25, 32, 20 and 23, were visiting the site of a friend who had died in the 4000 block of West West End Avenue, police said.
Police News Affairs said the victims reported "hearing shots and feeling pain,'' and the 20 and 23-year-old men realized they were shot in the legs. The 25-year-old man was shot in the buttocks while the 32-year-old man was wounded in the back. They were all taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where they were in "stable" condition, police said.
In an apparently unrelated shooting that happened nearby about 5 a.m. at 310 S. Springfield Ave., four other people were shot during an outdoor party -- a 30-year-old woman, a 16-year-old boy, a 30-year-old man and an 18-year-old man.
Partygoers were outside at the Springfield address when an argument erupted and someone who was involved in the argument pulled out a gun and fired into the crowd, striking the four people, police said.
All were hospitalized at Mount Sinai Hospital, where the 18-year-old man who was shot in the back was in serious condition. The other three were in good condition, police said.
No arrests have been made in any of the shootings.
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