June 02--Three people, including a 16-year-old boy, were killed and eight people, including a 14-year-old boy, have been wounded in shootings Wednesday in Chicago, police said.
A 19-year-old man died after getting shot outside a store about 9 p.m. in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on the Far North Side, police said.
The man was sitting in a parked vehicle outside Devon Food Liquor Party store in the 3000 block of West Devon Avenue when an unknown gunman walked out of the store and fired shots at him, said Officer Hector Alfaro, a police spokesman.
The man suffered gunshot wounds to his chest area. He was taken in critical condition to Presence St. Francis Hospital. He later was pronounced dead at the hospital, Alfaro said.
Late Wednesday evening, police blocked off the parking lot of the liquor store with yellow and red tape. Inside the crime scene, a silver car was parked near the entrance of the store. The window of the car's rear passenger side door was shattered.
Half a dozen people stood across Devon, watching police work.
Mohamuud Mohamed, 31, nervously shifted from side to side, clutching a water bottle in his hands, as he stood on the sidewalk. He said he was inside the laundromat next door to the liquor store when he heard the gunshots.
His black car stood parked next to the silver car that was shot up inside the crime scene. He said police told him some bullets may have hit his car too.
Mohamed said his clothes were in the dryer and he was about to be done with his laundry when the shooting happened.
"I keep thinking ... what if I was exactly at the car at that time?" he said.
Earlier, a man died after being shot in the 2600 block of East 75th Street in the South Shore neighborhood, said Officer Michelle Tannehill, a police spokeswoman.
The man, whose age was not immediately available, was shot in the head at 5:05 p.m., police said. The victim was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
In other shootings:
Most recently, about 11:30 p.m., a 22-year-old man was wounded in a shooting in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side, Alfaro said.
The man was standing in an alley in the 6600 block of South Union Avenue when he heard gunshots and realized he was struck. He was hit in the left leg, and he was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where his condition stabilized, Alfaro said.
Five minutes earlier also in the Englewood neighborhood, about 11:25 p.m., a 14-year-old boy was wounded in a separate shooting, Alfaro said.
The boy was walking on the 5600 block of South Laflin Street when he heard gunshots and realized he was struck, Alfaro said.
He was shot in the left leg, and he later managed to get to Saint Bernard Hospital, where his condition stabilized, Alfaro said.
About 6:37 p.m., two men were shot in the 4600 block of South Wood Street, in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. A 20-year-old man was shot in the back and taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized, police said. A 28-year-old man was shot in the foot and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition. Police News Affairs had no information on the circumstances of the shooting.
About 10 minutes earlier, at 6:24 p.m., a 24-year-old man was shot in the 4800 block of South Loomis Boulevard in the Back of the Yards neighborhood said, Officer Kevin Quaid, a police spokesman.
The man was shot in the head and was taken to Stroger Hospital where his condition stabilized, said Quaid.
A man and a boy were shot in the East Chatham neighborhood about 6:05 p.m., Tannehill said.
A 17-year-old boy was shot in the back and a 21-year-old man was shot in the right leg in the 7900 block of South Ingleside Avenue, she said. Although police News Affairs had been notified that their conditions were stabilized, Tannehill said she had no information on where they were taken for treatment.
The two told police they were standing outside on Ingleside when a dark-colored vehicle pulled up and at least two people inside fired shots at them.
A 25-year-old man was shot about 2:50 p.m. on the 1400 block of North Lotus Avenue in the Austin neighborhood, said Officer Thomas Sweeney, a police spokesman.
The man suffered a gunshot wound to his ankle, Sweeney said. The man was taken in good condition to Norwegian-American Hospital, police said.
Earlier Wednesday, a 16-year-old, identified as Victor Felix, was shot at 8:45 a.m. in the 5600 block of South Keeler Avenue in the West Elsdon neighborhood, police said.
Victor, of the 4000 block of South Albany Avenue, was pronounced dead at 9:18 a.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Felix's family said he attended John Hancock High School.
