Feb. 25--Police officers were driving down a block in Englewood on Wednesday night, checking out a report about shots fired, when a man ran up and told them, "They just got my gramma."
The officers rushed into the home in the 7200 block of South Sangamon Avenue around 7 p.m. and found 72-year-old Emagene Jackson sitting on a couch in the front living room with gunshot wounds to her chest and wrist, according to police.
An ambulance took Jackson to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she assured a reporter Thursday morning that she would be fine.
"Everybody's doing fine," she said by phone. "Thank you."
Jackson's daughter, Lenore Jackson, later said her mother was expected to make a full recovery. "Yes, she is, in the name of Jesus."
Lenore Jackson said her family would not discuss details of the shooting at her mother's request. Police said the gunman was likely targeting one of Jackson's relatives inside the home.
Half a dozen officers sifted through snow looking for evidence in the dimly lit stretch of road after the shooting, which occurred within a block of Bond Elementary School. The street was quiet except for the sounds of police tape flapping in the wind, wind chimes stirring nearby and officers murmuring to each other.
The shooting capped off a violent day Wednesday that saw three people fatally shot, including a 16-year-old boy, and three others wounded, including Jackson.
--At 6:25 p.m., police were called to the 400 block of South Kilpatrick Avenue in the West Garfield Park neighborhood and found a 34-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the head, according to Officer Thomas Sweeney, a police spokesman.
He was pronounced dead at the scene, said Sweeney.
--At 6:15 p.m., a 16-year-old boy was shot dead in the 5300 block of West Huron Street in the Austin neighborhood, not far from Howe Elementary School, Sweeney said.
Djuan Williams was hit in the chest and taken to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, where he died, Sweeney said. The boy was walking on the block when people approached him and fired before fleeing on foot, Sweeney said.
Williams lived in the 4900 block of West Thomas Street, about a mile from where he was shot.
--A 39-year-old man was found fatally shot Wednesday morning in Chicago's Lawndale neighborhood, police said.
The man was found in the 1500 block of South Lawndale about 7:35 a.m., police said. He had been shot in the head, police said, citing preliminary information. He may have been killed during a robbery, police said.
The victim was identified as Shandale Neal, who owned a home on the same block where he was killed, according to the medical examiner's office and public records.
Officers loaded Neal's body into a black bag and then into a squadrol instead of waiting for the body removal service as small groups of people stood at the edges of the crime scene and watched.
One man stood in the doorway of his home on Lawndale Avenue. The two homes adjacent to his, one built of red brick and one of brown, had their windows and doors boarded over. The house on the corner had burglar bars.
Onlookers left soon after police hauled the man's body away.
Someone found the body in an alley next to a vacant lot used partly as a community garden and partly as a dumping ground.
Detectives are investigating the death as a homicide, police said. No one was in custody.
Frazier Preparatory Academy loomed over the vacant lot from across Lawndale Avenue, where children had hung art in windows on the upper floors.
The shooting took place in an alley next to a Chicago Public Schools Safe Passage Route. A dead raccoon lay between a dumpster and chain-link fence inside the crime scene.
Snow started to fall as police tore down the red and yellow crime tape. Long strands tangled in the branches of the trees that lined the vacant lot and blew in the wind.
As the last officers worked, some who had guarded the scene sped away to join a pursuit a few blocks to the west.
In other shootings:
--A 24-year-old man was shot in the leg in the Gresham neighborhood about 3:40 p.m. The man was in the 8300 block of South Ada Street when he was attacked, Sweeney said.
--At 6:30 p.m., a 21-year-old man was shot in Lawndale, police said. He was in the 4000 block of West Cermak Road when he was shot in the leg. He went to Mount Sinai Hospital, and his condition was stabilized.
The Chicago Tribune's Tony Briscoe and Megan Crepeau contributed.
