Shootings Monday left four people dead, three of whom were involved in domestic-related incidents. Three other people were wounded during separate attacks.
An 18-year-old man was shot in the head about 5:40 p.m. in the 9800 block of South Wallace Street near Euclid Park in the city’s Longwood Manor neighborhood, according to Chicago police.
Earlier, Chicago fire department officials put his age as in his 20s.
Witnesses told police that the gunman fired multiple shots but he was not in custody.
The man was pronounced dead at 5:58 p.m. on the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
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A 52-year-old man was shot dead in the 1700 block of North Narragansett Avenue in the city’s Galewood neighborhood about 1:35 p.m., police said.
The 52-year-old and a 27-year-old man were arguing inside a residence when the younger man shot the 52-year-old in the head and body, police said. He was dead on the scene of the domestic-related attack.
No arrests have been made, and Area North detectives are investigating.
A man and a woman were found dead in an apartment building in an apparent domestic-related murder-suicide, officials said Monday afternoon. Shortly before 11 a.m. Monday, emergency responders from police and fire agencies were sent to the 2900 block of South State Street in the Dearborn Homes neighborhood for a report of two people shot, according to officials.
Coming off a disastrous 2016 that saw more than 760 slain and some 4,300 shot across the city, Chicago police prepare for Memorial Day weekend, and the unofficial start of summer — traditionally, the year’s most violent stretch.
There, investigators found a 25-year-old woman and a 32-year-old man in the hallway of an apartment building, each with a gunshot wound to the head, authorities said. Both were subsequently pronounced dead.
Police said a weapon was found nearby and investigators are not searching for anyone else in connection with the crime.
A 24-year-old woman was shot in the buttocks in the 6200 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue about 5 p.m., police said.
Witnesses told police two gunmen had jumped from a vehicle which pulled up near a group of people standing at the back of the Cottage Grove address. The woman was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital but police did not say her condition.
A 41 year old man was shot in the left arm about 2:45 p.m. in the 4300 block of South Parnell Avenue, police said. He got himself to University of Chicago Medical Center where he was in good condition.
A 42-year-old man was shot in the leg in the 1900 block of West Maypole Avenue about 1:25 p.m., police said. The man took a private vehicle to Stroger Hospital, where he was listed in good condition, police said.
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Two people were shot early Monday while driving on the inbound lanes of Interstate 57 near 115th Street on the city’s Far South Side, according to Illinois State Police.
About 2:45 a.m., someone inside a black Dodge Charger shot at the car the two people were in. Another passing vehicle then struck…
Two people were shot early Monday while driving on the inbound lanes of Interstate 57 near 115th Street on the city’s Far South Side, according to Illinois State Police.
About 2:45 a.m., someone inside a black Dodge Charger shot at the car the two people were in. Another passing vehicle then struck…
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The 52-year-old man was the fourth fatality of the Memorial Day weekend. As of 3 p.m. Monday, there had been at least 36 people shot in the city since Friday afternoon, four of them fatally. That figure includes two people who were wounded in a shooting on Interstate 57 early Monday.
Last year, 71 people were shot, six of them fatally, during Memorial Day weekend, according to data kept by the Tribune.
This holiday weekend has more extra officers working each day than Memorial Day weekend 2016, according to Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson.
This year, 1,300 extra officers, on top of normal staffing levels, will be working this weekend, Johnson said. Last year, there were about 880 extra officers working, he said.
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