Two girls were shot in the head Saturday night in separate incidents on the city’s South Side.
An 11-year-old girl was in "very critical” condition after a shooting in the in the 6500 block of South King Drive in the Parkway Gardens neighborhood.
The girl was sitting in a parked vehicle about 7:40 p.m. when someone fired shots, hitting her in the back of the head, police and fire officials said.
The child was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, said Chicago Fire Department spokesman Curtis Hudson.
Less than an hour earlier, a 12-year-old girl was shot in the head while playing with friends in the city’s West Englewood neighborhood.
She was the unintended target in a shooting near the 1900 block of West 57th Street about 7:15 p.m., police said.
The girl was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital.
Police earlier said the girl was a woman, between 35 and 40 years old who was standing on the corner when she heard shot and felt pain.
Two other people were fatally shot and at least four more were wounded Saturday in separate attacks in the city.
Four people were shot, including a 25-year-old woman who has died, in another attack, about 8:30 p.m. in the 100 block of North Mayfield Avenue, said police spokeswoman Officer Michelle Tannehill and Hudson.
The four were on foot when a dark-colored SUV pulled up and two people got out and began shooting at them, hitting them, police said.
The 25-year-old woman was shot in the neck and died, police said. A 25-year-old man was shot in the arm and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he is in stable condition; another man, 18, was shot in the leg and taken to West Suburban. Another 25-year-old woman who was shot in the face was taken to Stroger, where her condition has stabilized, according to police.
As of about 10 p.m., the block, lined with large multi-unit apartments and large homes, was quiet. A police officer shone a flashlight onto yellow markers on the sidewalk before opening the black iron gate that led to the courtyard of a brick complex.
No one is in custody.
A block away and about 14 hours earlier, a 23-year-old man was killed in the 100 block of North Menard Avenue in the city’s Austin neighborhood.
It happened about 6:55 a.m. Saturday when someone shot him in the head. He was found by responding officers lying on the ground in an alley and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
His name was not being made public yet. The shooting may have been gang-related and no arrests have been made, police said.
Separately, a woman in her early 30s was shot in the left side of her head about 7:15 p.m. Saturday in the 1900 block of West 57th Street, police said.
Earlier, police said the shooting occurred in the 5600 block of South Winchester Avenue, which is nearby.
The woman was taken to Stroger Hospital, where she was in critical condition.
No one was in custody and police are investigating.
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