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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