July 22--One man was killed and five other people were wounded in shootings on the South and West sides since about 8 a.m. Tuesday, according to authorities.
A shooting at 9:39 p.m. left a man dead in the 5900 block of South State Street in the Washington Park neighborhood.
The man was driving a Dodge Charger southbound on State Street when someone exited a red sedan and began firing shots along with several males on the sidewalk, said Officer Ron Gaines, a Chicago police spokesman.
The man was shot in the head and died at the scene. A family member at the scene identified him as Cass Singleton.
A shooting that ended with the victim stranded on the Eisenhower Expressway originated in suburban Bellwood, according to a Chicago Police Department spokesman.
State police had originally said the man was driving on the Laramie Avenue overpass at Interstate 290 at about 5 a.m. when someone shot at him.
He drove onto the expressway, where his car stalled, according to Illinois State Police Sgt. Rodney Collins. He got out of the car and flagged down a passerby, who drove him to Stroger Hospital.
But Chicago police and Illinois State Police later determined that the shooting occurred in Bellwood, according to a police spokesman.
A woman on her way to work left her Bellwood home about 5 a.m. and found someone had smashed into her car, which was parked in her driveway of her home in the 2400 block of Van Buren Street, said Bellwood police spokesman Andre Harvey.
In addition to the woman's car, responding officers also found shell casings lying in the street along with a gray bumper from a rented Mitsubishi sedan, which left the scene being driven by a Chicago man in his late 20s who authorities later learned was shot, Harvey said.
"At some point Chicago calls us saying they have a grey Mitsubishi on the expressway with a gunshot victim in it and we have a bumper in our town that matches the car,'' Harvey said. "We send someone to the hospital to talk to the victim and we're still trying to get a statement from the victim,'' Harvey said.
"He seems to be ok; he was shot in the left buttocks or hip area, " Harvey said of the victim.
Harvey said the shooting victim, though he told police he was shot in Chicago, was likely shot in Bellwood.
Harvey said they do not have a motive for the attack, but confirmed no one else was injured.
A 23-year-old woman was shot in the Lawndale neighborhood just after midnight, said Officer Hector Alfaro, a police spokesman.
She was standing on the sidewalk in the 3600 block of West Douglas Boulevard when two males walked up and fired shots in her direction. She was hit in the chest, abdomen and the right hand, and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where her condition stabilized, Alfaro said.
Another shooting happened about 6:40 p.m. in the 5300 block of South Justine Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, said Officer Thomas Sweeney, a police spokesman, correcting earlier information that the shooting occurred in the 5400 block of South Laflin Street.
A 20-year-old man was shot in the leg and taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized, Sweeney said.
Another man was shot in the 2200 block of South Kirkland Avenue about 3:45 p.m. He walked into Mount Sinai Hospital with a wound to his right calf, police said. The 19-year-old told police he was on the street when he heard shots and felt pain.
There was also a shooting about noon on the Far South Side in the 200 block of West 95th Street. According to police spokeswoman Bari Lemmon, a 35-year-old man was standing outside when he was approached by an armed man who shot him in the leg, citing preliminary reports. Where the man was taken for treatment was not immediately available.
Earlier Tuesday, someone shot a man in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood just before 8 a.m., according to police. The shooting happened in the 4000 block of West Kamerling Avenue in the basement apartment of a red house.
The 24-year-old was shot in the chest, elbow and side and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition, police said. Authorities said the shooting was domestic-related and may have been between two men and a shared love interest. No one is in custody.
Chicago Tribune reporter Rosemary Regina Sobol contributed.
