Monday, June 11, 2012

Two Former CHA officer's were busy late this morning to grab this gunman armed with AK-47 rifle fires into party crowd

Three men was killed and 10 others wounded, at least two critically, in five separate shootings on the South Side, police said this morning.

Five of the victims were wounded at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday a party in the 700 block of West 50th Place in the Back of the Yard neighborhood when a man armed with an AK-47 assault rifle opened fire on a crowd of partygoers, according to separate police sources.

The crowd included at least two members of rival gangs, police said. Police recovered the rifle after the shooting, but the shooter escaped, authorities said.

Two of the wounded, Jonathan Duncan, 22, of the 5200 block of South Racine Avenue, and Shondell Adams, 21, of the 700 block of 50th Place, were each pronounced dead at area hospitals, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

The other three victims, a man, 28 and two females, ages 20 and 16, all suffered minor wounds and were listed in good condition, police said.

In the other fatal shooting, a 21-year-old man who was a passenger in minivan was shot in the chest while traveling in the 9300 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue at about 2:15 a.m., police said.

The victim, identified by the medical examiner's office as Dante Kyles, of the 400 block of East 88th Place, was driven to Advocate Trinity Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

It's unclear whether he was the intended target.

In other shootings, two men and a woman were shot and wounded in the 100 block of East 60th Street in the Washington Park neighborhood at about 11:20 p.m. Sunday, police said.

The men, ages 33 and 27, along with the 27-year-old woman all suffered non-serious injuries, police said.

At about 9:53 p.m., two men in their 20s were each shot in the leg near 79th Street and Ingleside Avenue in the East Chatham neighborhood, police said.

Both men were hospitalized in good condition, a police spokesman said.

Just before 12:30 a.m. Monday, a 27-year-old man said he was walking in the 0-100 block of East 102nd Street in the Roseland neighborhood, when he heard gunshots and felt pain in his lower back. The man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, police said.

The shootings continue a pattern of multiple shootings that kept officers racing from incident to incident during the weekend.

No arrests were made as detectives were still gathering details on each shooting.

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