Two Fatally Shot By Chicago Police In Response To Domestic Disturbance On West Side
Police were called to an apartment building on the 4700 block of West Erie at about 4:30 a.m. Saturday for a domestic incident.
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Police were called to an apartment building on the 4700 block of West Erie at about 4:30 a.m. Saturday for a domestic incident.
Three men were killed and at least seven people have been wounded in shootings across Chicago since Thursday afternoon.
Officers responding to a call of shots fired at 11:36 a.m. Friday in the 700 block of West 71st Street found the 20-year-old with multiple gunshot wounds to the thigh, according to Chicago Police.
Two males and a female were taken to area hospitals for their injuries, which were not thought to be life-threatening, according to the sheriff's office.
A witness told police that 30-year-old Craig Harris went outside about 4:50 p.m. and four males were waiting for him in a gangway in the 7300 block of South Vernon.
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Both homicides occurred in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side within about a half mile of each other.
Deangelo Green, 31, was arrested Monday and charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery/discharge of a firearm, according to Chicago Police.
A man faces charges of domestic battery and aggravated assault after he was shot over the weekend by an off-duty Chicago Police officer inside their Dunning neighborhood home. The officer, a 47-year-old woman, shot 52-year-old James Holland in the right shoulder when he approached her with a knife, police said.
Eight people, including a 15-year-old boy, were wounded in shootings on the city's South and West sides Tuesday.
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The teen was walking on the sidewalk in the 0-100 block of West 125th Street about 10 p.m. when a male in an alley shot him in the lower left leg, police said.
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The 32-year-old victim was driving a flatbed tow truck northbound in the 6800 block of South Anthony Avenue about 9 a.m. when someone opened fire at him, according to Chicago Police.
The 28-year-old victim was walking in the 10100 block of South Indiana Avenue at 6:20 a.m. when a dark car pulled up with two males inside, according to Chicago Police. The driver was armed with a gun.
A pregnant woman was wounded by a stray bullet Wednesday evening in far south suburban Sauk Village.
Police said the boy was sitting in the back seat of hi mother's car in the 1000 block of North Leamington Avenue shortly before 10 p.m. when shots were fired, and the boy was struck in the upper right side of his back.
The shooting happened about 10:30 p.m. in the 10600 block of South Martin Street, according to Chicago Police.
He was on the front porch of a home in the 200 block of West 112th Street about 9:45 p.m. when someone opened fire from a white SUV, according to Chicago Police.
The men, ages, 26 and 19, were in a vehicle in the drive-thru in the 5200 block of South Pulaski Road about 1:15 a.m. when a gunman walked up, started shooting and hit both of them, police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said.
The 33-year-old was in a vehicle in the 5000 block of West Huron Street about 3:30 p.m. when he was shot several times in the leg, police said.
The man was shot the hand just before 6:30 p.m. in the 7900 block of South Euclid Avenue, according to Chicago Police.
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