July 30--One person was killed and at least five have been injured by gunfire citywide since Wednesday afternoon, police said.
The fatal shooting occurred at about 3:40 a.m. in the West Pullman neighborhood, said Chicago Police spokeswoman Officer Amina Greer.
A 21-year-old man was shot in the head, back and arm while in the 12000 block of South Prairie Avenue, said Greer, citing preliminary information. He was taken to Roseland Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. No further information was immediately available.
The most recent non-fatal shooting occurred at 3:20 a.m. in the Homan Square neighborhood, Greer said.
A 21-year-old man told police he was driving in the 700 block of South Spaulding Avenue when someone fired at him. He was hit in the leg and took himself to Mount Sinai Hospital, where his condition stabilized.
A teenager was shot in the Fernwood neighborhood at about 8 p.m., said News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines.
A 16-year-old boy was standing on the street near the corner of South Union Avenue and West 103rd Street when someone from a passing silver vehicle fired shots, Gaines said. He was hit in the foot and went to Roseland Community Hospital.
About an hour earlier, a 41-year-old man was shot in the West Town neighborhood, Gaines said.
He was standing on the street in the 2300 block of West Huron Street when he was confronted by someone who shot him, Gaines said. He was hit in the arm and leg and taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition stabilized.
Two men were shot and critically injured in the Lawndale neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, Chicago police said.
The men, ages 27 and 31, were in critical condition at Mount Sinai Hospital following the shooting about 1:15 p.m. in the 2100 block of South Harding Avenue, said Officer Nicole Trainor, a police spokeswoman. The 27-year-old suffered a gunshot wound to the head.
The shooting may have been narcotics-related, according to police. Trainor said Police News Affairs did not yet have detailed information on the circumstances of the shooting.
At the shooting, Gayland Howard heard what sounded like a firecracker -- a single pop that didn't sound like gunfire -- before hearing three "pows" that were unmistakable. The 68-year-old former sheriff's officer was watching television upstairs in his apartment when the shooting happened.
"First heard it, it sounded like a little firecracker. Then the other one, pow pow pow, that ain't no firecracker," he said.
He looked out his window. No commotion. No yelling. No car peeling off. But he saw a "little fella" walking by a neighbor's front porch, so he stepped outside and saw a young man, his body twisted and face down, his legs sprawled on the stairs of a neighboring apartment building.
"He was just mumbling. I was trying to tell him, don't move. You're looking all right, you're gonna be all right man. I didn't want him to go to go into that daze, go to sleep, never would come out of it."
A woman down the street yelled as Howard spoke.
"On my life, I'm on my way. I'm on my way," she yelled into a phone before jumping into a gold SUV and heading up an alley that parallels Ogden Avenue toward Mount Sinai Hospital.
Officers paced the street in front of the staircase where the man was found, walking slow and keeping their gaze toward the ground.
A woman in a red skirt walked up to the crime scene tape. Howard stood inside behind a fence.
"How you doing, pops," she said. A sergeant checked her ID and walked her to her house.
"Everybody's so close-knit," Howard said. "She grew up with my granddaughter."
