Two women watched as paramedics wheeled their neighbor, cursing and groaning, into an ambulance.
“Tell my mom it’s Mike,” one woman said to the other.
The man, in his 20s, was shot in the right shoulder just after midnight Friday in an apartment across the street in the 6300 block of South Rockwell in Marquette Park, police said.
A woman was also shot there, one of four double-shootings over eight hours in Chicago.
The woman, also in her 20s, was standing on the front porch of the man’s apartment when two men approached and opened fire, police said. She was hit in the head and taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center.
The man was inside the apartment when he was hit. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where his condition was stabilized.
Neighbors gathered on porches as police taped off the crime scene and placed evidence markers on the front lawn of the man’s apartment.
“It’s ridiculous,” said the woman who knew the victim as Mike. “It’s scary.”
She woke up to four to five gunshots that sounded like someone was pounding on her home. Just a few months earlier, an 18-year-old was shot just steps from her home when two men emerged from an alley and opened fire.
“I know where it’s coming from,” she said. “We mind our own business.”
The woman said the violence has escalated so much that her family doesn’t let her 18-year-old brother go out when he comes home from college out of fear that something might happen to him.
Another neighbor, Jose Perez, said he woke up to seven gunshots, followed by five more gunshots. He called police and later stood outside his porch with a child.
He remembered the December shooting.
"I mean it’s not that bad," Perez said. "Sometimes they shoot, but it’s not that bad out here."
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