1 Dead, 10 Wounded In Weekend Shootings Across Chicago
(STMW) -- A 17-year-old boy was killed and 10 other people were wounded -- including two people on the Kennedy and Dan Ryan expressways -- in shootings across the city since Friday night.
The teenage boy was fatally shot in the head Saturday afternoon in the South Side Bronzeville neighborhood.
He was shot shortly before 3 p.m. in the 3900 block of South Prairie, police said.
The boy was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:44 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. His name was not released Saturday evening pending notification of his family.
Police said the shooting is gang-related, and that the boy was a documented gang member.
The most recent nonfatal shooting occurred early Sunday on the Dan Ryan Expressway on the South Side.
A man, whose age was not immediately known, was in a vehicle travelling southbound on Interstate 90/94 when he was shot near the 79th Street exit, Illinois State Police said.
That person was taken to Christ Medical Center, but further information was not available.
Just two hours earlier, at 1 a.m., a male was shot on the Kennedy Expressway on the West Side.
The male — whose age was not immediately known — was in a red Ford Mustang that was heading northbound on I-90 when he was shot near the Fullerton exit ramp, police said.
That person was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, police said, but his condition was not available.
About 2:10 a.m., a 30-year-old man was shot in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
The man was shot in the leg and ankle in the 4100 block of West Adams, police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where his condition had stabilized, police said.
On Saturday night, a 17-year-old boy and a man, 20, were shot in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side.
The boy and man were both shot in the leg about 7:45 p.m. in the 1700 block of North Kimball, police said. They were taken to Presence Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, where both of their conditions had stabilized.
Two hours earlier, a man was shot and seriously wounded in the South Side Calumet Heights neighborhood.
The 18-year-old man was shot "multiple" times at 5:45 p.m. in the leg in the 9200 block of South Clyde, police said. He was taken in serious condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
Earlier Saturday afternoon, a man delivering fried chicken in the Washington Park neighborhood was shot during an attempted robbery on the South Side.
The delivery man, 39, got out of his car to deliver chicken to a customer about 12:40 p.m. near South Prairie and East 57th, when a male approached, pulled out a gun and announced a robbery, police said. The would-be robber started shooting, striking the delivery man in the abdomen, police said. He then ran off without stealing anything.
The delivery man then went back to his place of employment, from where he was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, police said. He was transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital, where his condition had stabilized.
About 1:30 a.m. Saturday, two people were hurt in a shooting in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.
A 23-year-old woman and a 42-year-old man were inside an establishment in the 1700 block of West 87th Street when someone outside opened fire, police said. A bullet grazed the woman's leg and she refused medical treatment at the scene. The man showed up at Christ Medical Center with a graze wound to the head, and he was listed in good condition, police said.
The weekend's first shooting happened about 11:10 p.m. Friday in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
A 27-year-old man was standing outside in the 1700 block of North Mason when an unknown male walked up and opened fire, striking him in the arm and leg, police said. He was listed in good condition at West Suburban Hospital.
Additionally, police shot and critically wounded a man after he allegedly struck an officer with a car Saturday night on the West Side.
Undercover officers driving an unmarked squad car stopped the suspect -- a man thought to be in his 20s -- about 10:15 p.m. in the 2300 block of West Lake as part of a narcotics investigation, police and Fraternal Order of Police spokesman Pat Camden said.
After the stop, two officers exited their car, but the suspect accelerated and struck the police vehicle, according to a statement from Chicago Police. As a result, one officer was knocked to the ground, police said. The suspect then tried to flee -- and almost ran over the fallen officer in the process -- but was shot multiple times by police, according to police and Camden.
The male officer was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where his condition had stabilized, officials said. Police said the officer's injuries were not life-threatening.
The man shot by police was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body, officials said.
The Independent Police Review Authority is investigating the shooting, spokesman Larry Merritt said.
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