Oct. 13--Four people, including a 17-year-old, were killed and at least 16 others were wounded in separate shootings between late afternoon Friday and early Monday morning, police said.
The 17-year-old male teen and a man were killed and three people were wounded in shootings between Friday at 3 p.m. and Saturday morning.
Ten more people were shot, one fatally, during overnight shootings between Saturday evening and Sunday morning. Another five people were wounded in shootings between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning.
In the most recent fatal shooting, a 28-year-old man died after he showed up at Rush University Medical Center with a gunshot wound to his abdomen around 3:05 a.m. Monday, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office and police.
Someone dropped off the man, identified as Juan Cardenas of the 2700 block of Grunewald Street in suburban Blue Island, at the hospital and left, according to Chicago Police Department spokesman Officer Hector Alfaro and the medical examiner's office.
Cardenas was transferred to Stroger Hospital in critical condition and was later pronounced dead at 5:05 a.m., according to the medical examiner's office.
It was not immediately clear how or where the man was shot, police said.
The car used to drop off the man was stolen, according to the medical examiner's office.
A second fatal shooting occurred at 4:20 a.m. Sunday in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side.
Three men were in a parked car in the 5400 block of South Prairie Avenue when another vehicle drove up and someone inside fired shots, said Officer Hector Alfaro, a Chicago police spokesman.
A 35-year-old man was shot in the head and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A 40-year-old man was shot in the back and listed in serious condition, and a 24-year-old man was grazed in the head. His condition was stabilized. Both men were being treated at Stroger Hospital.
Another fatal shooting happened at 4:10 a.m. Saturday in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side, according to Chicago police spokeswoman Officer Janel Sedevic. A 17-year-old boy was riding in a vehicle in the 3900 block of West Ferdinand Street when someone walked up and began firing shots. He was hit in the neck and the face and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
At 3:20 a.m. Saturday, a 33-year-old man was killed in an apartment in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side. He was attending a party in the 1100 block of North Lawler Avenue when someone shot him in the head, Sedevic said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital and pronounced dead.
None of the three people killed have been officially identified as of Monday morning.
The four homicide victims over the weekend raised the total for 2015 to at least 399 according to data compiled and analyzed by the Tribune. The total number of shooting victims has risen to at least 2,399, the data shows. Both of those numbers are higher than either 2013 or 2014, the data shows.
