Aug. 13--Two people, including a 14-year-old girl, were killed and seven other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago since Wednesday, according to police.
Tracy Davis, 14, was found with a gunshot wound to the head around 2:20 p.m. Wednesday in the 700 block of North Homan Avenue in East Garfield Park, She was dead on the scene, officials said.
The Cook County medical examiner's office said she lived in the 4400 block of West Adams Street, about 2 1/2 miles away on the other side of Garfield Park.
Police released no other details and said they were conducting a death investigation.
The other fatal shooting occurred early Thursday when a man in his 20s was hit in the Princeton Park neighborhood on the South Side, said Officer Amina Greer, a Chicago police spokeswoman.
The man was found unresponsive in a car in the 200 block of West 93rd Place about 3:10 a.m. Thursday. He had been shot several times in the face and neck, according to preliminary information from police.
About 12 shell casings were scattered on the grass and sidewalk next to the driver's side of the car, which was parked on 93rd Place across from the playground of Turner-Drew Language Academy. Police officers cordoned off the car and the area around it with red and yellow tape.
The car's windshield wipers had been turned on, and swiped back and forth as police shined flashlights into the car.
An ambulance with flashing lights parked along Princeton near the crime scene and drove away after several minutes without a patient.
In other shootings:
--A 27-year-old man walked into Rush University Medical Center after getting shot in the arm on the Southwest Side around 3:45 a.m. Thursday, said Officer Jose Estrada, a Chicago Police Department spokesman.
The man told police he was shot in the 2300 block of West 79th Street in the Beverly View neighborhood, Estrada said, citing preliminary information.
His condition was stabilized at the hospital, and no other information was immediately available, Estrada said.
--Earlier, two men were shot around midnight in West Garfield Park, Greer said.
A 19-year-old and a 20-year-old were in a parked car in the 4000 block of West West End Avenue when someone fired shots from a passing car, Greer said.
The 19-year-old was hit in the arm and grazed in the face. An ambulance took him to Mount Sinai Hospital. The 20-year-old was hit in the hand, and a relative took him to Loretto Hospital.
The conditions of both men were stabilized, Greer said.
--About 2:30 p.m., a 24-year-old man was shot in the 1500 block of West Morse Avenue in the Rogers Park neighborhood, according to Officer Veejay Zala, a spokesman for the Chicago Police Department.
He was shot in the hand and leg, and was taken to Presence St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where his condition has stabilized. Police originally said the victim was a juvenile.
--A 15-year-old boy was shot around 1:40 p.m. in the 11500 block of South Morgan Street in the West Pullman neighborhood, police said.
Someone in a car got out and opened fire, hitting the 15-year-old in the neck and buttocks, police said. The gunman got back in the car and fled.
The boy was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said.
--Another shooting, possibly a drive-by, occurred around 8 a.m. in the 5100 block of South Indiana Avenue, according to Officer Ana Pacheco, a spokeswoman for Chicago police.
A 19-year-old man was taken in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, said Chicago Fire Department spokesman Juan Hernandez. He was shot in the side and back.
The second victim, a 22-year-old man, was shot in the right leg. His condition was stabilized at Stroger Hospital, Hernandez said.
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