Sept. 14--At least nine people have been shot across the city since Saturday afternoon, including two West Side incidents that both had two people injured, police said.
Most recently, about 3:40 a.m. Sunday on the city's West Side, two men were shot in the 400 block of North Ridgeway Avenue in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, police said.
The two, 22 and 36, were either sitting inside or leaning against a parked car when shots were fired and they were hit.
The younger man suffered a graze wound to the head and gunshot wound to the leg and was taken to Stroger Hospital. The other man suffered a graze wound to the left leg and he was taken to Norwegian American Hospital, police said.
In other shootings:
--About 3:25 a.m. in the city's Albany Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side, someone shot a 36-year-old man, according to Officer Hector Alfaro, a police spokesman. Two male assailants confronted the man, who was standing on a sidewalk in the 4100 block of North Bernard Avenue, and shot him in the upper back and right leg, Alfaro said. He was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where his condition had stabilized.
--At 2:40 a.m. Sunday in the 500 block of East 75th Street in the city's Park Manor neighborhood on the South Side, a 32-year-old man was shot in the ankle, said Officer Ronald Gaines, a police spokesman. The victim, whose condition stabilized after being taken to Jackson Park Hospital, told police he was standing on a sidewalk when he heard shots and felt pain, said Gaines.
--At 2:15 a.m. Sunday in the 2500 block of West Jackson Boulevard in the Near West Side neighborhood, a 22-year-old man was shot in the back, said Gaines. He was in serious condition at Mount Sinai Hospital.
--About 9:50 p.m. Saturday, a 32-year-old man was shot in the leg and ankle in the 2400 block of West Fillmore Street in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side, Gaines said. The man told police he was standing on a sidewalk when he heard shots and felt pain. The man, a "self-admitted gang member," was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where his condition had stabilized, Gaines said.
--A man was shot and critically injured in the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood on the South Side earlier Saturday, police said. The man, 24, was shot about 5:30 p.m. in the 8800 block of South Wood Street, said Officer Veejay Zala, a police spokesman. According to Officer Nicole Trainor, a police spokeswoman, the man was sitting in a parked car when a blue sedan pulled up and someone inside fired shots before the vehicle fled in an unknown direction. The man suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said.
--At 3:10 p.m. Saturday, a 20-year-old woman was shot in the arm and a 21-year-old man was shot in the leg in the 1100 block of North Karlov Avenue in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side, said Gaines. The woman told police she was walking on a sidewalk when she heard "loud reports and she was struck by gunfire," Gaines said. The woman was not the intended target, police said.
She was taken to Stroger, where her condition had stabilized. The man was being treated at Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, where he was in fair condition, Gaines said.
