UPDATES WITH ADDITIONAL SHOOTINGS
At least 22 people have been shot — eight of them fatally — across the city since Friday afternoon, according to Chicago Police.
Most recently, at least five people were shot and four of them were killed Saturday afternoon in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side.
The shooting happened at 12:39 p.m. in the 100 block of West 105th Street, according to Chicago Police. Four of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene while the fifth was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, Chicago Fire Department officials said. Additionally, a child was transported from the scene to Roseland Community Hospital, although it was not immediately clear whether the child had been shot. Further details, including the victims’ ages and genders, were not immediately available.
Another fatal shooting happened about 10 p.m. Friday after 28-year-old Crispin Coliz got into an argument with two males inside a convenience store, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. When Coliz got into a vehicle and started driving away, the two other people followed in a light-colored SUV. They pulled alongside him in the 7200 block of West Grace and opened fire, hitting him in the side of the head.
Coliz, who lived in the 4800 block of Rotary Road in Cherry Hill, was taken to Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, where he was pronounced dead at 10:39 p.m., authorities said.
Less than two hours earlier, a man was shot dead during a robbery in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood on the Southwest Side. At 8:30 p.m., officers found a 52-year-old man dead with a gunshot wound to the head in a car parked in the 5100 block of South Long, according to police. Someone walked up to him with a gun as he was getting into his car and opened fire as he tried to drive away, police said. His identity has not yet been released.
Two people were killed and two more wounded in a shooting about 3:30 p.m. in the Brighton Park neighborhood.
A 47-year-old man, an 18-year-old man and two 17-year-old boys were walking down the street at 3:29 p.m. in the 4300 block of South Rockwell, when two people got out of a silver vehicle parked at the mouth of an alley and opened fired. One of the 17-year-old boys, identified as Daniel H. Torres of the 4200 block of South Fairfield, was shot multiple times and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:06 p.m., police and the medical examiner’s office said The 47-year-old man suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead on the scene. His identity was not released Saturday morning.
The other two teens were taken to Mount Sinai, where the older was in serious condition and the younger in critical, police said.
The latest nonfatal shooting happened about Saturday afternoon in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood.
The 21-year-old was shot in the right arm at 12:16 p.m. in the 3100 block of West Roosevelt, according to police. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in “serious but stable” condition.
At least 10 more people have been wounded in shootings across the city since 3:30 p.m. Friday.