CHICAGO — Three people have been killed and at least seven other people have been wounded in shootings since just after noon Tuesday in Chicago, according to police.
A 19-year-old man was fatally shot in the 5100 block of West Chicago Avenue in the Austin neighborhood just before 9 p.m., police said in a media notification. He was wounded in the back and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
He was identified as Lavell Jones of the 5300 block of West Crystal Street, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Just after 9:30 p.m., a man 50-year-old man was fatally wounded in the 3800 block of West Roosevelt Road in the Lawndale neighborhood, police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was initially in critical condition, but was later pronounced dead, official said.
He was identified as Johnny Shanklin of the 1200 block of South Independence Boulevard, according to the medical examiner’s office.
In the West Pullman neighborhood, a 21-year-old man suffered multiple gunshot wounds in an attack about 7:15 p.m. in the 12100 block of South Stewart Avenue, police said in a media notification. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was in critical condition, but later died.
The man was next to a parked car when another vehicle pulled up and someone inside fired shots at him, police said.
He was identified as Allavar Taylor of the same block where he was fatally wounded, officials said.
A 23-year-old man was shot and critically wounded about 12:05 p.m. in the Roseland neighborhood, police said. He was shot in the 11000 block of South Vernon Avenue and taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where he was in critical condition and being treated for several gunshot wounds, police said in a media notification. The man may have been wounded in a drive-by shooting involving a white vehicle, according to police, who did not release further details about the shooting.
In the Chicago Lawn neighborhood, two men were shot after 9 p.m. in the 6000 block of South Maplewood Avenue, police said. A 20-year-old man was shot in the chest and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where police said his condition had stabilized, while an 18-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized. No information about the shooting’s circumstances was released by police.
Around 9:15 p.m., two ambulances carrying shooting victims sped away with lights and sirens from a scene near the mouth of an alley in the 5900 block of South Campbell Avenue in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood.
A half dozen police officers and a few spectators on the street and on the back porch of a bungalow stood around a small strip of crime scene tape in the alley as investigators scoured the ground with lights.
Around the corner, in the 6000 block of South Maplewood Avenue, more officers were positioned near another crime scene, where at least four evidence markers sat next to shell casings in the street. Witnesses told police a pair of gunmen opened fire at a group standing in the area, then ran away.
A pair of women and a child sped into the parking lot of Morrill Math & Science Elementary School, located on Maplewood in the same block as the shooting.
The older woman walked up to an officer and asked about an 18-year-old man who she said was her son, but the officer told her he didn’t know.
Maryah Cole, 26, walked out of her family’s home, which was illuminated by police lights. Cole, who lives on the block with her 5-year-old daughter, said she refuses to let her daughter play outdoors at the park nearby, which has been overtaken by gambling, drinking and occasional shooting.
In August, Cole said, her brother and cousin were wounded in a shooting on the block while the family, including her daughter, were gathered near their car. A truck slowed and someone fired shots mortally wounding her cousin, she said. Her brother survived.
“She hit the deck and looked at me, like, ‘Are you OK?’” Cole recalled about finding her daughter, then 4, lying on the ground.
“It’s just the reality we live in,” she continued, looking at Tuesday night’s crime scene.
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