Aug. 20--Two men were killed and six other people, including a 14-year-old boy, have been wounded in separate shootings across the city since Wednesday afternoon, police said.
Most recently, a 23-year-old man, identified by family members as Isaac Acevedo Jr., was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting around 1:10 a.m. Thursday in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side, police said.
Acevedo was sitting in the front passenger's seat of a dark Mazda traveling south near North Central Park Avenue and West Schubert Avenue when a white SUV pulled alongside and someone started firing, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Acevedo's girlfriend, who was driving the Mazda, was struck by broken glass and was taken to the hospital, police said.
About 10 minutes earlier, at 1 a.m., a 17-year-old boy was wounded in a drive-by shooting about a mile and a half away in the Avondale neighborhood on the Northwest Side, said Chicago Police Department spokesman Officer Hector Alfaro.
The teen was standing on the corner in the 3000 block of North California Avenue when someone fired shots at him from a passing white SUV, Alfaro said.
The teen was grazed in the head and was taken to Norwegian American Hospital where his condition stabilized, Alfaro said.
Police could not immediately say whether the two shootings were related.
Earlier, on Wednesday afternoon, a 20-year-old man was pronounced dead after he was shot in the neck in the 7400 block of South Harvard Avenue in the Englewood neighborhood, said Officer Thomas Sweeney, a Chicago Police Department spokesman.
The shooting happened at 1:25 p.m., and the man was pronounced dead shortly afterward, police said.
In other shootings:
--About 12:05 a.m. Thursday, a man in his 30s was shot in the leg in the University Village neighborhood on the Near West Side, Alfaro said.
The man was in the 1200 block of South Throop Street when he was shot. He was listed in good condition at the University of Illinois Hospital Health Sciences System, Alfaro said.
--At 8:05 p.m. Wednesday, a 26-year-old man was shot in the 4500 block of South Drexel Boulevard in the Bronzeville neighborhood, police said.
The man was shot in the back and was taken in serious condition to Stroger Hospital, police said.
--About 7:15 p.m., a 30-year-old man was wounded in a shooting in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side, Alfaro said.
The man was outside in the 5400 block of South Carpenter Street when someone from a passing green van fired shots, Alfaro said.
--At 4:05 p.m., a 14-year-old boy was shot in the 1400 block of South Avers Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood, Sweeney said.
The teen, a known gang member, was on the street when he was shot in the arm, Sweeney said. He was taken to Mount Sinai, where his condition stabilized, Sweeney said.
--About 2:15 p.m., a 16-year-old boy was shot in the 2400 block of West Lithuanian Plaza Court in the Lithuanian Plaza neighborhood, Sweeney said.
The boy was shot several times and taken in serious condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to police.
No one was in custody in connection with the shootings as of early Thursday, and police were still investigating.
