UPDATES WITH ADDITIONAL SHOOTINGS
Three people have been killed and at least 10 more wounded, including a 13-year-old boy, in South and West side shootings since 6 p.m. Friday, according to Chicago Police.
The latest killing happened Saturday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood. Eddie Thomas, 33, was sitting in a vehicle at 3:33 p.m. in the 4900 block of West Van Buren when someone in a silver sedan pulled up and opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Thomas suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his body and was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he died at 5:11 p.m., authorities said. He lived nearby in the same neighborhood.
Earlier Saturday, a man was found shot to death in Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side. About 4:30 a.m. officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 4500 block of South Wood and found John Gonzalez, 36, with a gunshot wound to his head being put into a vehicle by several friends, police and the medical examiner’s office said. He was transported to University of Illinois Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 4:43 a.m. He lived in the same block as the shooting.
Two men wounded in the same attack, ages 26 and 32, later showed up in good condition at Stroger Hospital, police said. The older man was shot in both legs and the younger man shot in one of his hands.
Less than two hours earlier in the same neighborhood, officers responding to a call of shots fired just before 3 a.m. in the 5000 block of South Ashland found 23-year-old Willie Cooks in a building with a gunshot wound to his back, according to authorities. Cooks, of the Roseland neighborhood, was pronounced dead at the scene at 3 a.m. Officers also found a 28-year-old man nearby who had run away and was shot in the right leg. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized, police said.
The most recent nonfatal shooting happened Saturday night in the Englewood neighborhood and wounded a Cook County sheriff’s correctional officer, according to police and the sheriff’s office. The correctional officer was shot in one of his legs at 8:37 p.m. in the 7300 block of South Aberdeen. He was taken in good condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. His age and the circumstances of the shooting were not immediately known. Officers were searching for two suspects involved in the shooting.
The 13-year-old boy was wounded in a shooting about 11:30 p.m. Friday in the Austin neighborhood. He was walking in the 5100 block of West Concord with a 16-year-old boy when they heard shots and realized they’d been struck, police said. They were taken to Stroger Hospital, where the younger boy was in critical condition with a chest wound and the older boy’s condition was stabilized with a leg wound.
At least four other people were shot in Chicago between 6 p.m. Friday and 8:40 p.m. Saturday, police said.
Last year, six people were killed and 19 more wounded in shootings over the same weekend.