CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Residents of the Albany Park and Ravenswood Manor communities are looking to police for answers and protection following a series of gang-related shooting incidents.
The latest shooting was fatal and happened Wednesday night on the 3600 block of West Lawrence Avenue. It resulted in the seventh person being shot in the neighborhood in three days.
Wednesday's shooting came a day after a mass shooting a block away where five people were shot and two days after a murder a couple blocks from there.
Chicago Police Cmdr. Ron Pontecore, who oversees the Albany Park district, recently took part in a virtual meeting with community residents.
"We're dealing with at least 10 different conflicts, gang wise," he Residents of the Albany Park and Ravenswood Manor neighborhoods are looking to police for answers and protection following a series of gang-related shooting incidents.said.
The latest shooting was fatal and happened Wednesday night on the 3600 block of West Lawrence Avenue. It resulted in the seventh person being shot in the neighborhood in three days.
Wednesday's shooting came a day after a mass shooting a block away where five people were shot and two days after a murder a couple blocks from there.
Chicago Police Cmdr. Ron Pontecore, who oversees the Albany Park district, recently took part in a virtual meeting with community residents.
"We're dealing with at least 10 different conflicts, gang wise," Pontecore said.
Area resident Sammy Martinez heard the shots that killed a man on Monday night.
"It happened right in front of our home. I was watching a Disney movie with my son," Martinez said.
Martinez told CBS 2 that he takes his son to daycare on the block and a bullet went through the front window there.
"It could happen to anybody," he said.
Shootings in the area — more than 40 so far this year — are more than double the number from the same period last year.
