2 women dead, 3 children hurt in mass shooting in Greater Grand Crossing
Preliminary information indicated it started from a personal dispute that happened inside a home.
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Preliminary information indicated it started from a personal dispute that happened inside a home.
Police said the suspect approached the victim at the 69th Street station platform and used a translator app to demand their belongings or they would be shot.
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Chicago police said officers responded to a call of a person shot and found two men, 32 and 35, both struck by gunfire.
Both men, 32 and 35, were taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition.
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The two offenders got into a silver SUV, pulled up to the victims, and began shooting in their direction, according to police.
Chicago police say two men and a woman were walking when they got into an argument with two other people who then got into a car, pulled up to them, and began shooting.
Chicago police said that around 4:43 a.m., a man was walking with two others when a car pulled up, and three people exited the vehicle.
Preliminary information says the woman was found unresponsive outside in the 6900 block of South Wabash Avenue just after 8 a.m.
Police are investigating the death as a homicide.
The victim was driving when he was shot by the offender, who was a passenger, police said.
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A 7-year-old boy has died days after an apartment fire that left another person dead and three others hurt in the South Shore neighborhood.
The shooting happened just after 1 a.m. on Tuesday in the 4700 block of South Princeton Avenue.
Chicago police said officers responded to a report of a person shot and found the three victims who were struck by gunfire.
It's unclear what led to the shooting and where the victims were at the time.
Chicago police said around 2:30 a.m., a fire broke out inside the three-flat apartment building in the 2400 block of East 78th Street.
Police say a man threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of the row home and was seen running north in the alley wearing all black.
The fires happened in the South Shore and Bridgeport neighborhoods about an hour apart.
Chicago police said an unknown male threw an incendiary device through the window of the apartment just before 2:30 a.m.
Two children are among five others hurt as a result of both fires. The ages and genders of each of the victims were not released.
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