A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed in a dispute over a bicycle Saturday
afternoon on the South Side, authorities said, and another man was killed in
West Humboldt Park late Saturday night.
Fifteen others were shot and survived Saturday night and Sunday morning,
police said.
The teen was among a group of people who argued with another group over
whether a bike was stolen about 3 p.m. Saturday. The groups parted ways but
someone from one group turned around and shot, hitting Jamal Lockett. He was
pronounced dead at
Northwestern
Memorial Hospital, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's
office.
Police responding to a call of shots fired found the boy lying on the ground
with a gunshot wound to the chest in the 7300 block of South Coles Avenue in the
South
Shore neighborhood, according to
Chicago
Police Department News Affairs Officer Daniel O'Brien. He lived on the 7500
block of South Colfax Avenue -- a block east and two blocks south of where he
was shot.
A man was shot and killed about 10:30 p.m. in the 1100 block of North
Keystone Avenue, authorities said. Police in the area reported hearing gunfire
and found the 26-year-old man lying in the street. A spokeswoman for the Cook
County medical examiner's office identified him as Andre Brown, of the 900 block
of North Keeler Avenue.
In other shootings:
Two men, in their late teens or early 20s, were shot about 3:50 a.m. about a
block from the Grand Central District police station. They were shot on the 5700
block of West Grand Avenue in the Belmont Central neighborhood, and the station
is at the intersection of Grand and Central avenues. Both were shot in their
legs, police said. One walked into Our Lady of the Resurrection Hospital and the
other went to West Suburban Hospital, police said.
Two brothers were shot about 12:30 a.m. Sunday on the 200 block of West 105th
Street in the Fernwood neighborhood, police said. A 48-year-old was shot in the
chest and is in critical condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center and a
46-year-old man was grazed in the shoulder but refused medical attention. Police
said the younger of the two was not cooperating with investigators.
A 20-year-old man was shot twice - in the leg and foot - about 1:15 a.m. in
the 5700 block of West Bloomingdale Avenue in the North Austin neighborhood,
police said. He's in good condition at Loyola University Medical Center. He told
police he "heard shots and felt pain."
A 34-year-old man was shot about midnight near 55th and Halsted Streets, on
the northern border of the Englewood neighborhood. He was shot in the leg and is
in serious condition atJohn H. Stroger, Jr. Hospitalof cook County, police said.
He was standing outside when someone inside a car pulled up and started shooting
toward him, police said.
Just before midnight, two women were shot on the 2700 block of East 128th
Street in the
Hegewisch
neighborhood, police said. A 31-year-old woman was shot in the face and a
46-year-old woman was shot in the shoulder. The two were on a porch and refused
two men entry to a house party and the men, while walking away, fired shots from
down the block and struck the two.
Someone wearing dark clothing stepped out of a dark vehicle and started
shooting at a group of people about 11:53 p.m. on the 2300 block of East 89th
Street in the Calumet Heights neighborhood, police said, striking a 16-year-old
twice in the abdomen. He's in stable condition at Christ hospital, police said.
Police said the boy doesn't have a criminal history.
A 35-year-old man was shot in the head about 11 p.m. Saturday in the 6800
block of South Calumet Avenue in the Park Manor neighborhood. He's in critical
condition at Stroger hospital. He told police he "heard shots and felt pain,"
police said.
A man in his 50s was shot in the stomach on the 10000 block of South Sangamon
Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood in what may have been an attempted
robbery, police said. He was shot about 10:45 p.m. and taken to Christ medical
center in stable condition, Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Amina Greer
said.
A 28-year-old man walked into Loretto Hospital on the West Side with a
gunshot wound to the leg and hip. He told police he was shot about 9:30 p.m. on
the 5200 block of West Monroe Street, between Laramie and Lockwood avenues in
the South Austin neighborhood. He was transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital,
police said.
A 17-year-old boy was shot in the back about 7:45 p.m. in the West Englewood
neighborhood, in the 6700 block of South Hermitage Avenue, O'Brien said. He's in
fair condition at Christ hospital, he said.
About 5 p.m., a man was shot on the 5400 block of South Laflin Street in the
Back of the Yards neighborhood.
A police car responding to the shooting struck a 6-year-old
girl. The girl's and the man's wounds are not life-threatening, police
said.
A 15-year-old girl was shot in the back about 4:50 p.m. near the intersection
of 87th Street and Saginaw Avenue in the
South
Chicago neighborhood, Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines said.
She's in serious condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center, he said. Police
described her as an innocent victim caught between two groups of gang members. A
group of three young men were shouting gang slogans when two others approached
them from the rear and started shooting. The three took off running and the girl
was shot.
Police cut a suspected bank robber from an air duct in an Oak Lawn strip mall
early this morning, 12 hours after he dropped from a ceiling, brandished a
handgun, tied up two employees and stuffed cash into a black bag, authorities
said.
