CHICAGO (CBS) — Five people were killed during a 12-hour rash of violence that saw 19 people shot across the city to start Halloween weekend, according to Chicago Police.
A 14-year-old boy was the latest homicide victim early Saturday. At 1:23 a.m., he was on the street in the 500 block of South Central in the West Side Austin neighborhood when someone in a dark-colored car shot him in the torso. He died after being taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, police said.
At 12:04 a.m. in the South Side Auburn Gresham neighborhood, someone walked up to a 25-year-old man sitting in a vehicle in the 1200 block of West 79th Street and shot him in the chest and abdomen, police said. He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died.
Five minutes before that, officers responding to a call of a person shot found a 30-year-old man near 78th Street and South Shore Drive with a gunshot wound to the head, police said. He died at Christ Medical Center.
The weekend’s first killings happened about 10:20 p.m. Friday at a Back of the Yards gas station. A man and woman, both 30, were sitting in a vehicle at the station in the 1900 block of West Garfield when a gunman walked up and fired at them, hitting the man in the chest and the woman in the side. Both were dead at the scene, police said.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not released the victims’ names.
The latest nonfatal shooting happened about 4:45 a.m. Saturday in the North Austin neighborhood on the West Side, where someone in a silver SUV shot a 36-year-old man in the leg on a sidewalk in the 5000 block of West Concord, police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition.
At least 13 more people were wounded in other shootings between 4:45 p.m. Friday and 2 a.m. Saturday.
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2016. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
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