Two people were killed, including the teenage grandson of U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, and at least nine more were wounded in shootings across the city to start the weekend, according to Chicago Police.
The congressman identified his grandson as 15-year-old Jovan Wilson, who was inside his Englewood neighborhood home about 6:45 p.m. Friday in the 5600 block of South Princeton when two people broke in, started arguing with the boy and then shot him in the head, according to Chicago Police. Davis said another teen pulled the trigger. No one was in custody early Saturday.
The other homicide happened in the Gage Park neighborhood about 12:15 a.m. Saturday, when officers found a 27-year-old man in the backyard of a home in the 3500 block of West 57th Street with gunshot wounds to the head and body. He died at Mount Sinai Hospital, police said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office did not have information on the death.
About 11:50 p.m. Friday in West Englewood, CPD officers fatally shot a 25-year-old man when he refused to drop his gun after they saw him shoot a 26-year-old man during a fight in the 2000 block of West 69th Street, according to police. Both were taken to Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn, where the alleged gunman died and the initial victim was in critical “but stable” condition, officials said. The Independent Police Review Authority is investigating the officers’ use of force.
About the same time, someone in a dark-colored car shot a 27-year-old man in the chest as he walked out of a Portage Park neighborhood gas station in the 5200 block of West Addison, police said. He was taken in serious condition to Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
Four people were shot in the North Austin neighborhood about 10:15 p.m.They were sitting in a car parked in the 5000 block of West Wabansia when someone in another car opened fire, police said. Two 21-year-old men were taken to Stroger Hospital, one shot in the hip and the other shot in the hand and grazed across the head, along with a 17-year-old girl shot in the knee and wrist, police said. The fourth victim, an 18-year-old woman, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with a hip wound. Their conditions were stabilized, police said.
Three more people were shot in other attacks across Chicago between 4 p.m. Friday and 1 a.m. Saturday.