May 02--A woman was shot and killed as she sat in a car at an intersection in Edgewater early Monday, among five people shot in Chicago since Sunday morning, according to police.
The 21-year-old woman was with her boyfriend at Ridge and Peterson avenues about 1 a.m., when someone got out of a gray sedan and fired shots, hitting her in the head, police said. She was taken to St. Francis Hospital and pronounced dead.
Police believe she was not the target of the shooting. A law enforcement source said her boyfriend is a member of the Latin Kings street gang.
No one was reported in custody.
Other shootings:
A 65-year-old man was shot in a West Pullman backyard Sunday night, police said.
He was in the back of a home in the 12100 block of South Wentworth Avenue at 9:40 p.m. when someone began shooting from the alley, said Officer Hector Alfaro, a Chicago police spokesman. He was hit in the lower back and the right arm and went to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. His condition was stabilized.
In the South Austin neighborhood about 7:05 p.m., someone shot a 36-year-old man sitting in a parked vehicle in the first block of North Long Avenue. He made it to Loretto Hospital on his own and was transferred to Stroger Hospital for treatment of chest and shoulder gunshot wounds.
About 5:25 p.m. a 27-year-old woman was shot in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. The woman was shot in the arm near West Walnut Street and South Homan Avenue, police said. She walked into University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System and was listed in good condition.
An 18-year-old man was seriously wounded Sunday morning in a shooting on the West Side in the city's West Garfield Park neighborhood. The shooting happened about 9:45 a.m. in the 4100 block of West Wilcox Street, said Officer Jose Estrada, a Chicago police spokesman.
The man suffered gunshot wounds to the thigh and abdomen. He was taken in serious condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, Estrada said.
