Dec. 26--A 30-year-old man has been killed and six other people have been wounded, including two teenage boys, in Chicago shootings since Thursday afternoon.
The fatal attack happened just before 5 p.m. Thursday in the 7300 block of South Vernon Avenue in the city's Park Manor neighborhood, police said. The man suffered a gunshot wound to the head, police said. About 5:50 p.m., police said the man was dead at the scene.
The Cook County medical examiner's office said the man was identified as Craig Harris, who lived in the same block where he was shot.
Photos taken after the shooting showed the man dead in a gangway between two bungalows as police investigated.
Three people were wounded in two separate incidents early Christmas morning in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, police said.
At 2:40 a.m., two men in a car at 47th Street and Loomis Boulevard were shot in a drive-by, police said. A 40-year-old man was hit in the head and taken in "grave condition" to Stroger Hospital. A 20-year-old man was grazed in the back and refused medical treatment, said Officer Ron Gaines, a Chicago police spokesman.
The more seriously injured man was still listed in Police News Affairs information as being in critical condition Friday evening, according to police.
The two men were in a car, stopped at a traffic light, when someone in a dark-colored vehicle pulled up beside them, and someone inside began firing, hitting the two men, police said. The attackers then fled.
An hour later and about five blocks away, a 22-year-old man was shot and seriously injured in Back of the Yards, Gaines said. The man was on a bicycle in the 1600 block of West 44th Street when a white van pulled up and someone inside fired shots. He was hit multiple times and taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition.
About 10 p.m. Thursday, a 14-year-old boy was shot in West Englewood, said Officer Hector Alfaro, a police spokesman.
He was on the sidewalk in the 2300 block of West 72nd Street when he heard gunfire and realized he had been shot. He was hit in the arm and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where his condition was stabilized.
At 8:55 p.m., a 24-year-old woman was shot in the Goose Island neighborhood, Alfaro said. She was standing on the sidewalk in the 700 block of West Evergreen Avenue when she was shot in the shoulder, Alfaro said. She went to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and her condition was stabilized.
Earlier Thursday, a 16-year-old boy was wounded in a shooting on the West Side in the city's East Garfield Park neighborhood. That shooting happened about 12:15 p.m. in the 3900 block of West Van Buren Street, said Officer Bari Lemmon, a Chicago police spokeswoman.
The boy said he was standing in the street when he was approached by a man who opened fire in his direction, Lemmon said, citing preliminary information.
The boy, who was shot twice in the legs, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where his condition was stabilized, Lemmon said.
Police were investigating.
