6 dead, 11 wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday
BY MICHAEL LANSU AND SAM CHARLES Staff Reporters May 25, 2013 6:04AM
Updated: May 26, 2013 10:48AM
Six people were killed and 11 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday evening.
The most recent fatal shooting happened early Sunday on the city’s Near North Side, leaving one man dead and a woman wounded.
The 42-year-old man, identified as Charles Jones of Miami, was shot in the head about 2:50 a.m. in the 1000 block of North Branch Street, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
He was pronounced dead at Northwestern Memorial Hospital at 3:33 a.m., the medical examiner’s office reported.
Police said the shooting stemmed from a car crash.
After the crash, multiple people got out from a vehicle and shot the man and a 44-year-old woman. She was taken to Northwestern in “stable” condition, police said.
The police department’s Major Accidents Division is investigating, but officers had no details.
Just after 2 a.m., a shooting in the West Pullman neighborhood on the South Side left a 28-year-old man dead, authorities said. He was shot in the armpit at 121st and Indiana Avenue, and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 3:20 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.
About 9:20 p.m. Saturday in the South Shore neighborhood, a man was shot in the head in a possible drive-by in the 7300 block of South Dorchester Avenue, police said.
Fearro Denard, 18, was dead on the scene, the medical examiner’s office reported. The shooting occurred in the same block as his home.
About 1:50 a.m. Saturday, a man was killed in the Hyde Park neighborhood, roughly half a mile from President Barack Obama’s home in neighboring Kenwood.
Gregory Dixon, 29, had buzzed the suspects into an apartment building in the 1400 block of East 52nd Street, police said. The shooters entered an apartment using a door left ajar, and fatally shot him in the chest and back.
Dixon, who had gang affiliations, was dead at the scene, police said.
About 11:45 p.m. Friday, a man was found shot outside his home in the 1100 block of North Lawndale Avenue, in the West Side Humboldt Park neighborhood, authorities said.
Tevin Kirkman, 22, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he died at 12:20 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.
At 11 p.m. Friday, a 17-year-old boy was killed and a man was wounded in the West Side Austin neighborhood. Police found them both injured outside in the 400 block of North Central Avenue, authorities said.
Leetema Daniels, of an unknown home address, was shot in the head and died at the scene, authorities said. An 18-year-old man was shot in the upper chest and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where his condition has since stabilized.
At least nine other people were wounded in non-fatal shootings across the city since Friday evening.
About 8:20 p.m. Saturday a 19-year-old man was shot in the 700 block of West 50th Place, part of the Back of the Yards neighborhood, police said. He was taken in good condition to Saint Bernard Hospital.
About 6:30 p.m. Saturday, a teen was shot in the Edgewater neighborhood on the North Side, police said.
The 17-year-old was shot once in the leg in the 6000 block of North Kenmore Avenue and taken in “stable” condition to an area hospital.
About 2:55 a.m. Saturday in the Northwest Side Logan Square neighborhood, a motorist was shot in the face, police said.
The 24-year-old man was driving in the 2300 block of North Ridgeway Avenue when someone started shooting at his vehicle, police said. He was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center where his condition has since stabilized.
About 1:45 a.m. Saturday, three men were hurt in a drive-by shooting in the 400 block of North Sacramento Avenue, in the West Side Humboldt Park neighborhood, police said.
They were walking down the sidewalk when they heard gunfire, then saw a red van speeding away, police said.
An 18-year-old man and a 21-year-old man were both shot in the buttocks, and the older man was also shot in the thigh. Both men have gang affiliations, and were taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in “stable” condition.
Another man, 21, was grazed in the arm and refused medical treatment, police said.
About 11 p.m. Friday night, an 18-year-old man was wounded in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side. He suffered a graze wound to the leg in the 7200 block of South Prairie Avenue.
About 8:45 p.m. Friday, a 17-year-old girl was shot in the 600 block of East 75th Street, also in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.
She was walking with her boyfriend and two other friends when two unknown male suspects approached the group and shot, police said.
The group ran from the shooters and the girl later realized she’d been shot in the hip, police said. She was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in “stable” condition.
About 7:35 p.m., a man was shot in the arm in the 1100 block of North Spaulding Avenue, in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. He was treated in good condition at Norwegian-American Hospital.
No one is in custody for any of the shootings as of early Sunday.
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