Nov. 18--A 16-year-old boy has died and ten other people wounded during shootings Saturday night into early this afternoon in the city, authorities said.
Someone shot the boy at 10:45 a.m. in the 4400 block of South Hermitage Avenue, police said. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition but has since passed, police said.
The boy, of the 6300 block of South Richmond Street, was pronounced dead at 11:20 a.m. at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Minutes earlier, at 10:18 a.m., a 27-year-old woman suffered a graze wound to the left during a shooting at 7752 S. Kingston Ave. She was treated on the scene by Chicago Fire Department paramedics, police said.
At 11:43 a.m. another person was shot in the chest and back at 727 W. 51st but his condition and age were not known, police said.
In a separate West Side incident, a man arrived at Mount Sinai Hospital about 12:30 p.m. and told authorities he'd been shot in the arm at Madison Street and Kostner Avenue, police said.
Authorities went to the scene and found evidence the shooting took place at that intersection, police said.
Earlier, two women were shot while standing on a porch in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood Saturday night, one of at least five overnight shooting incidents that left seven people wounded overnight.
The two women were wounded in the first shooting at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday on the 6100 block of South Rockwell Street on the South Side, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Amina Greer said.
An 18-year-old woman was shot in the arm and taken in good condition to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Greer said. A 23-year-old woman sustained gunshots to the torso and side and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she was also listed in good condition, Greer said.
No suspects were in custody as Area Central detectives investigated the shooting.
Early Sunday, an 18-year-old man was shot in the foot at about 1:50 a.m. on the 1400 block of South Kedzie Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood on the South Side, police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was listed in good condition. No suspects were in custody as Area Central detectives investigated.
In what appeared to be a drive-by shooting, a 24-year-old man was shot at about 12:45 a.m. Sunday on the 7400 block of North Seeley Avenue in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the Far North Side, Greer said, citing preliminary information.
The man sustained a graze wound to the thigh and a gunshot wound to the groin, Greer said. He was taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, where his condition was stabilized. No suspects were in custody as Area North detectives investigated the shooting.
At about 12:30 a.m., a 31-year-old man sustained a gunshot wound to the groin area on the 3300 block of West Walnut Street in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side, police said. The man was taken to Mount Sinai, and his condition was not immediately released.
No suspects were in custody in that shooting, and Area North detectives are investigating.
Sometime around 4 a.m., two people were shot near the intersection of West Jackson Street and South Halsted Boulevard in the Greektown neighborhood on the Near West Side, police said. One of them arrived at Mount Sinai without the assistance of an amubulance, and the other arrived at Stroger.
No further details on that shooting were immediately available, police said.
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