CHICAGO _ Four people were killed and 14 others were wounded in Chicago shootings between Sunday and Monday morning, according to police.
The youngest homicide victim was 16. He was fatally shot on the West Side in the 1200 block of South Avers Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood about 7:25 p.m. Sunday, according to police. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The boy was standing outside when a red sedan pulled up and someone inside shot him, police said.
Also on the West Side, a 33-year-old man was fatally shot in the back in the Humboldt Park neighborhood about 2:30 a.m. Monday, police said. Officers found him on the sidewalk in the 1000 block of North Lawndale Avenue while responding to a call of a person shot. The man was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
About 1:45 a.m. on the West Side, a 25-year-old man was shot in the back and found dead in an alley in the Lawndale neighborhood. The man was walking down the street in the 1800 block of South Kildare Avenue when a black sedan pulled up and someone inside fired shots. A family member came to the scene and screamed, "No," but police had already removed the body.
In the South Side's Chatham neighborhood about 3:45 p.m. Sunday, a 27-year-old man was shot in the head in a road rage incident in the 600 block of East 82nd Street, police said. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn initially in serious condition, police said. He was later pronounced dead.
The man was driving when someone in another vehicle took out a gun and shot him, according to police. A suspect was in custody and charges were pending, police said.
In the Near West Side neighborhood, the sound of nearby gunfire interrupted officers working on reports for a shooting that injured two people in the 2500 block of West Jackson Boulevard about 11:10 p.m.
About 40 minutes later, shots rang out in the 200 block of South Western Avenue � less than three blocks northeast of their location.
The officers ducked and called for an emergency response over police radios when they saw an offending vehicle speed away after someone inside had opened fire.
A 65-year-old man who lives in the 2400 block of West Jackson between the two shootings said he was outside on his porch when both of them happened.
"That's pretty arrogant to do so much shooting when the police are there. That's indicative of the attitude of these people," said the man, who did not want to be identified.
"It's ridiculous but it's been going on forever," said the man, who has owned a home on the block for 33 years. He spoke to a reporter from the concrete steps leading to his red-brick home, behind an iron gate with pointy tips.
Earlier in the day, members of the neighborhood gathered on the block for a Father's Day barbecue, he said.
He blamed the prominence of crime in the neighborhood on a number of vacant lots where people congregate and slow police response times to nuisances calls, like loud music or drug deals, that aren't shootings but can lead to them.
"It's unfair that you can call and you don't get a response until a person is shot," he said.
