7 Killed, 47 Wounded In Weekend Shootings Across Chicago
The weekend's latest homicides happened within 20 minutes of each other Sunday afternoon on the Southwest and West sides.
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The weekend's latest homicides happened within 20 minutes of each other Sunday afternoon on the Southwest and West sides.
A 29-year-old man was shot to death about 12:30 a.m. in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
Most recently, two men were wounded – one of them critically – in the North Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
Most recently, a man was killed and another was critically wounded in the Far South Side Fernwood neighborhood.
The 19-year-old was walking with a male in the 5300 block of South Rockwell about 1 a.m. when a vehicle pulled up and someone inside opened fire, according to Chicago Police.
The most recent fatal shooting happened Sunday morning in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
The most recent fatal attack happened in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side. Officers responding to a call of shots fired at 5:08 a.m. in the 900 block of North Massasoit found a man unresponsive in the driver seat of a car with a gunshot wound to the chest.
In the most recent fatal shooting, a 33-year-old man was in a vehicle about 8:20 p.m. traveling southbound in the 7600 block of South Eggleston in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood when another vehicle pulled alongside and someone inside opened fire, according to from Chicago Police.
The latest homicide happened about 10:45 p.m., when a man was killed in an Englewood neighborhood drive-by shooting on the South Side, police said.
An 18-year-old was in a Washington Park neighborhood alley in the 5700 block of South Calumet about 8:10 p.m. when someone walked up and shot him in the chest, Chicago Police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9 p.m.
Cook County prosecutors laid out the grisly details of how a young man killed six relatives in February, after he and his girlfriend went to the family's home to rob them of a few hundred dollars to buy milk and diapers for their own baby.
The most surprising development, to some, is that a relative of the victims is one of the murder suspects.
Police have arrested two people in connection with the February slaying of a family of six in the Gage Park neighborhood.
Rubi Estrada was last seen Wednesday in the 4900 block of South Maplewood, according to a missing person alert from Chicago Police. She may be near 50th and Rockwell streets.
One man was killed and three others were wounded in a shooting Tuesday night in the Gage Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side, police said.
Autopsy reports were released to the Chicago Sun-Times on Tuesday by the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
Investigators reportedly found a "bloody mess" inside the Gage Park home where six members of the same family were slain in February, according to detailed autopsy reports.
Most recently, a man was shot to death in the Wicker Park neighborhood Wednesday evening.
Chicago saw more than a weekend's worth of gun violence in one day Tuesday, with one man left dead and 17 people wounded in shootings, according to police.
One month later, crosses and candles -- now covered in snow -- mark the loss of six members of one family, in a violent killing spree a Gage Park home. CBS 2's Roseanne Tellez reports.
The boy was in critical condition Friday morning at Mount Sinai Hospital, after he was shot in the chest in a drive-by shooting in the 3000 block of West 54th Street around 9 p.m. Thursday.
Around 4:55 p.m., the 19-year-old man was in the 5100 block of South Trumbull Avenue when someone approached him from behind and fired shots, hitting once him in the abdomen, Chicago Police said.
She was walking in the 5100 block of South Homan Avenue shortly before 10 p.m. when she heard gunfire and realized she'd been shot in the right shoulder, according to Chicago Police.
Police said it appears three "bladed weapons" were used to kill five of the six family members found slain in their Gage Park home last week.
The father of the youngest victims in the Gage Park killings arrives in Chicago Wednesday night and we're getting a glimpse of the family's hometown in Mexico, where some of them will be buried.
