CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- One person was killed and eight others were wounded in shootings Monday in Chicago.
The fatal attack occurred in Englewood on the South Side. Officers responded to reports of shots fired at about 10:40 p.m. in the 6000 block of South Racine Avenue and found the 35-year old with multiple gunshot wounds, Chicago police said. The man was taken to St. Bernard Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His name hasn’t been released.
Two people were wounded, one critically, in South Chicago. A 35-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman were walking at about 9:20 p.m. in the 8400 block of South Muskegon Avenue when someone opened fire, police said. The man was struck in the neck and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition. The woman was shot in the arm and went to Trinity Hospital, where she was in good condition.
A 3-year-old boy was grazed in the back in Lawndale on the West Side. He was riding in a car driven by a 24-year-old woman in the 3700 block of West 16th Street when someone fired shots at about 3:55 p.m., police said. The woman drove to Loretto Hospital, where the boy was in good condition.
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A 15-year-old girl was shot and seriously wounded while riding in a car in Englewood on the South Side. The car was headed west in the 6900 block of South Halsted Street when shots were fired around 11:20 a.m., police said. The girl was hit in the upper leg and was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in critical condition. The car struck another car before coming to a stop. No one was in custody.
Four others were wounded in shootings across Chicago.
Thirteen people were killed, and thirty-three people were wounded over the weekend across the city.
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