3 Killed, 8 Wounded In Chicago Shootings On Thursday
The latest killings happened within 20 minutes of each other in Humboldt Park and Gresham, according to Chicago Police.
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The latest killings happened within 20 minutes of each other in Humboldt Park and Gresham, according to Chicago Police.
An elderly couple was at home in their Marquette Park apartment when they say three men broke into their apartment and demanded drugs.
The day's first shooting happened about 12:05 a.m. in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.
Kierra Gardner went missing May 9 from the 7200 block of South Washtenaw, according to a missing person alert from Chicago Police.
A 23-year-old man was shot to death in the most recent fatal shooting, which happened in the Fuller Park neighborhood.
The boy was shot in the 2500 block of West 69th Street after the car he was traveling in was hit with gunfire, according to Chicago Police.
The victim was a passenger in a vehicle with her boyfriend about 1:30 a.m. in the 2500 block of West 73rd Street when 3 people fired shots.
The day's latest spate of gun violence left nine people wounded in a span of less than four hours.
Bettye Jackson was last seen about 5:30 p.m. in the 6600 block of South California, according to a missing person alert from Chicago Police.
The weekend's first shooting left a 17-year-old boy dead in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Titus Jackson was discovered unresponsive in the 7100 block of South Washtenaw with gunshot wounds to the chest, leg and buttocks.
Two children, a woman and a man were injured Thursday night after a vehicle they were in struck a tree in Marquette Park on the Southwest Side.
Three of the deaths came by way of a mass shooting inside a Brighton Park neighborhood home on the Southwest Side.
James Harland, 68, was last seen about 11:15 p.m. near the 6300 block of South California Avenue, according to a missing person alert from Chicago Police.
Two people were shot to death inside a Brighton Park home in the 2500 block of West 46th Street at about 7:30 a.m.
Just after midnight, a woman in her 20s was standing on a front porch of a home in the 6300 block of South Rockwell when two people walked up and fired shots, hitting her in the head, according to Chicago Police. She was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition.
The slaying happened about 12:45 p.m. outside a Kenwood neighborhood home on the South Side, where officers found a 19-year-old man unresponsive in the 4600 block of South Woodlawn.
The latest killing happened at 11:36 a.m. Monday in the West Side Austin neighborhood, where a vehicle pulled up to 24-year-old Allante Elmore on a porch near his home in the 4800 block of West Hubbard, and shot him repeatedly, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
About 1:10 a.m. Monday, a 36-year-old was standing outside in the 2200 block of West Chicago in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood when someone in a black SUV opened fire, striking him in the abdomen, face and left leg. The man was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
A man was shot and is in critical condition Friday morning in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
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