Nov. 12--A man was killed and three other people were wounded in shootings Wednesday in Chicago, police said.
The fatal shooting occurred just after 10 p.m. as a 38-year-old man was driving a dark-colored car in West Pullman, according to Officer Hector Alfaro, a police spokesman.
He was shot in the upper back as he headed east on 127th near Michigan Avenue, police said. The car veered off the road, across an empty lot, over a metal railing and into an apparently empty one-story orange building in the 100 block of East 127th Street.
He was pronounced dead on the scene.
Early Thursday, police officers searched for shell casings and examined the car's tracks in the grass. The car's windows were shattered. The building had for-rent signs posted in its doors and a faded sign outside reading, "Yummy Burger Bar-B-Que."
About 15 yards west, the car's crumpled front license plate lay in an empty lot. A detective with a clipboard came up next to the plate and shined his flashlight on it. He then put the flashlight in his mouth to light up his clipboard and wrote down the plate number.
No one was in custody early Thursday.
Other shootings:
--At 7:50 p.m., a 23-year-old man was shot during an attempted robbery in the 11200 block of Avenue H in the East Side neighborhood, said Officer Thomas Sweeney, a police spokesman.
The man was walking in the area when two attackers came up and tried to take his phone. The man was shot in the hand, police said.
The man made it to Advocate Trinity Hospital, where he was listed in good condition, police said.
--A 32-year-old man was shot at 2:35 p.m. in the 5700 block of South Throop Street in Englewood, Sweeney said.
The man suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his arms, legs and abdomen and was taken in serious condition to Stroger Hospital, Sweeney said.
--At 2:30 p.m., a 29-year-old man was shot in the 3900 block of West Lexington Street in Lawndale, Sweeney said.
The shooting left the man with a graze wound to his face, Sweeney said. The man was taken in good condition to Mount Sinai Hospital.
