Sept. 02--Shootings have left four people dead and 12 wounded since Tuesday afternoon on the South and Northwest sides, police said.
The most recent homicide left two dead in the Uptown neighborhood about 2:15 a.m., according to police. A 34-year-old man was pronounced dead at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center and a 32-year-old man was pronounced dead on the scene.
The shooting took place in the 5000 block of North Winthrop Avenue, according to Poluice News Affairs, which was releasing no further information about the slaying.
A 25-year-old man was shot to death in the 2700 block of West Lexington Avenue about 12:20 a.m. Police responded to a call of a person shot and found the man lying on the sidewalk wounded. He was shot in the head, chest and groin and pronounced dead at the scene. No one is in custody.
Three people were shot, one fatally, in the 1300 block of South Kostner Avenue about 11:40 p.m. A 16-year-old boy was killed and woman, 42, and a girl, 14, were wounded. Someone in a white sedan drove by and opened fire, hitting the three. All three were taken to Stroger Hospital. The 42-year-old was shot in the leg and the 14-year-old in the back. Their conditions were stabilized, authorities said.
In nonfatal shootings:
Two men were shot in the Humboldt Park neighborhood about 5:10 a.m. They both walked into Norwegian American Hospital with gunshot wounds. The two were in the front seat of a car, heading south in the 1100 block of Washtenaw Avenue, when three people on the street threw gang signs and shouted slogans before someone opened fire toward the car. Three passengers in the back seat weren't injured. The car's 19-year-old driver was grazed in the arm and hit in the wrist and the 20-year-old front-seat passenger was hit in the lower back and is in critical condition.
A man was shot twice in the back of the head in the 2800 block of West Jackson Boulevard about 12:45 a.m. He was described by police as uncooperative and is in fair condition at Stroger Hospital.
A 21-year-old was shot in the 100 block of North Central Avenue about 12:30 a.m. He was shot in the back and taken in critical condition to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood.
A 35-year-old man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn after getting shot in the 7500 block of South Ingleside Avenue about 10:25 p.m., police said. He was standing on the sidewalk when someone emerged from an alley and opened fire, police said. His condition has been stabilized.
A 23-year-old man was shot in the 300 block of South Central Avenue about 8:15 p.m. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with a wound to his arm and his condition was stabilized, police said.
Earlier, two people including a 16-year-old boy were wounded in a shooting in the 6100 block of West Fullerton Avenue in the Belmont Central neighborhood, said Officer Thomas Sweeney, a Chicago police spokesman. The boy was shot in the chest and taken to Loyola University Medical Center in critical condition. A 21-year-old woman was also shot in the same incident. She had a leg wound and also was taken to Loyola Medical Center where her condition had stabilized, Sweeney said. The shooting happened at Riis Park, according to a police source.
A woman was shot at noon in the 6700 block of South Prairie Avenue in the Park Manor neighborhood, Sweeney said. The woman, who was shot in the leg, managed to get to the University of Chicago Hospitals and was transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital where she was stabilized.
At 11:45 a.m. a man, 24, was shot in the leg in the 8800 block of South Racine Avenue in the Gresham neighborhood, Sweeney said. The man was taken to Christ Medical Center where his condition had stabilized, Sweeney said.
