Saturday, May 19, 2012

City Wide Shootings left 14 dead


A 14-year-old boy was shot and killed Friday night and 12 others were wounded in shootings that stretched into the early morning hours across the city, Chicago police said.
The boy was shot in the back just before 9 p.m. in the 2600 block of West 37th Place in the Brighton Park neighborhood, police said, citing early reports.
The boy, identified by the Cook County medical examiner's office as Alejandro Jamie, of the 2900 block of West Pershing Road, was pronounced dead before 10 p.m. at Mount Sinai Hospital.
No details of the shooting were available, and the investigation was being conducted by Area Central detectives.
In other overnight shootings:
-- At about 2:30 a.m. Saturday, someone stepped from a gangway in the 11600 block of South Peoria Street and opened fire at five people on a porch celebrating a birthday. Three men and two women were wounded, police said.
The men, ages 26, 25 and 32, were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center. A 37-year-old woman was taken to Stroger Hospital and the other woman, 35, refused treatment at the scene after suffering a graze wound to her upper back.
-- Just after 8:30 p.m. Friday, a 32-year-old man sitting in a van in the 600 block of East 79th Street in the Chatham neighborhood was shot in his side, police said. He was taken to Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center and his condition was stable, police said.
-- About 9:20 p.m., a woman walked into Weiss Memorial Hospital with a gunshot wound to the arm, police said. She was shot near the intersection of Southport Avenue and Irving Park Road, police said.
-- About 10 p.m., a man and two women were wounded in the 5600 block of South Winchester Avenue, police said.
A 26-year-old man who was shot in the arm and leg was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition, police said. A 19-year-old woman shot in the abdomen was also taken to Stroger, in serious condition. A 23-year-old woman who was wounded in the arm was taken to Holy Cross Hospital in good condition.
-- At about the same time, a 27-year-old man was shot twice in an alley in the 3200 block of North Keeler Avenue by a gunman in a passing vehicle, according to police and the Chicago Fire Department.
The victim, who suffered gunshots to the groin and the arm, was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where police said his condition stabilized.
-- At about 11:50 p.m., police said a 20-year-old man was wounded in the arm in the 7900 block of South Drexel Avenue, police said. He was taken to Stroger in stable condition.
No arrests have been made in any of the shootings.

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