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    segunda-feira, 28 de novembro de 2016

    2 dead, 15 wounded in Chicago shootings

    At least two men were killed and 15 other people were wounded in shootings citywide since Sunday afternoon, according to police.
    An 18-year-old man was fatally shot in the 8800 block of South Marshfield Avenue in the Gresham neighborhood just after 2 p.m., police said. 
    The man was sitting in a parked car when someone in an SUV that was driving north on Marshfield fired shots and hit him several times in the chest, police said. The man drove himself to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to police. He was pronounced dead at 2:22 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office, which was not releasing his name Sunday evening.
    Just after 1:50 p.m. in the West Garfield Park area, a 37-year-old man was shot to death in the 3800 block of West Adams Street, according to police.
    The man was with a group of people when a man or boy across the street started shooting at them, hitting the man, police said. The attacker then fled south on foot.
    The man was identified as Rickey King, 37, of the 8800 block of Burley Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. King, who court records show also went by the names Ricky King and Anthony Thomas, was pronounced dead at 2:01 p.m., according to the medical examiner's office.
    In other shootings:
    • About 3:10 a.m. Monday, a 24-year-old man was robbed and shot in the leg in Park Manor. He was in the 7200 block of South King Drive walking on the sidewalk when two females and two males--one of whom had a gun--walked up and announced a robbery. The man gave them some of his belongings, then the robber with the gun shot him in the left leg. He was taken to Stroger Hospital and his condition was stabilized.
    • At 12:40 a.m., two women were shot during a robbery in West Rogers Park. They were on the sidewalk in the 6100 block of North Maplewood Avenue when two males walked up and demanded money. When the women said they didn't have any, one of the robbers opened fire. A 23-year-old woman was shot in the foot and a 28-year-old woman was grazed in the left leg. Both went to Saint Francis Hospital and their conditions were stabilized.
    • Just before 11:30 p.m. Sunday, a 24-year-old pregnant woman was shot in the abdomen in West Garfield Park. Police were called to the 4600 block of West Adams Street for a call of a domestic disturbance with shots fired; the woman was found wounded and taken to an area hospital in serious condition. The suspected shooter was pursued by police, fired on officers two separate times, and was fatally shot by officers, according to statements by Chicago police.
    • A 44-year-old woman was shot about 11:05 p.m. in Back of the Yards. She heard gunfire while she stood on a front porch in the 800 block of West 51st Place, then realized she was shot in the right leg. She went to Stroger Hospital and her condition was stabilized. 
    • About 10:55 p.m., a 20-year-old man was shot in the 7200 block of South University Avenue in Grand Crossing. He was shot in the leg and went to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.
    • About 10:20 p.m., a 20-year-old man was shot in the left leg in Parkway Gardens. He was on the sidewalk in the 6500 block of South King Drive when someone fired shots from a passing green sedan. The man went to University of Chicago Medical Center and his condition was stabilized.
    • About 9:45 p.m., two men were shot by an employee of the West Rogers Park store they were trying to rob. The men, 18 and 20, went into the store in the 7400 block of North Western Avenue and announced a robbery, police said. A 21-year-old store employee with a concealed carry license fired his weapon at the would-be robbers. The 18-year-old man was shot in the right forearm and went to Swedish Covenant Hospital. The 20-year-old man was shot in the right shoulder and went to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. Their conditions were both stabilized, and they are in police custody along with a third person.
    • Just before 7:35 p.m., a 33-year-old man was shot in the Douglas neighborhood. Someone in a dark-colored sedan fired shots at him as he walked in the 500 block of East 38th Street. He was shot in the wrist and went to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. His condition was stabilized.
    • About 5:10 p.m., a 50-year-old man was shot in the abdomen in 1800 block of West 78th Street in the Gresham neighborhood, according to police. The man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where his condition was stabilized with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The man told police he was walking with a 21-year-old man when two men or boys went up to them and one started firing a gun, hitting the 50-year-old, police said.
    • In the Uptown neighborhood, a 22-year-old man was shot in the 4800 block of North Sheridan Road about 4:45 p.m., police said. The man suffered a gunshot wound to the right leg and was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in good condition. The man told police he was walking in the area when he head gunshots and ran into a building in the 4600 block of North Sheridan, where he realized he had been shot.
    • A 24-year-old man was shot in the foot in an attack in the 1800 block of South Pulaski Road in the Lawndale neighborhood about 2:55 p.m., police said. He was in good condition at Mount Sinai Hospital following the shooting. The man got into a fight with several people in a business, and someone pulled him outside before he was shot in the foot, police said. The attackers then drove off in a black SUV, heading west.
    • A 27-year-old man was shot about 2 p.m. in the 3800 block of West Division Street in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, according to police. The man was in good condition at Mount Sinai Hospital. The man told police he was walking down the street when someone came out of an alley and started firing a gun at him before he fled heading north in the same alley.
    • In the West Englewood neigborhood, a 23-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the left knee just before 1:30 p.m. in the 2000 block of West 69th Street, according to police. He was in good condition at Holy Cross Hospital, police said. The man told police he was walking west in an alley when someone in a van that was driving down the alley started firing shots before the van drove off heading west, then south.
    • In a shooting incident in the West Town area Sunday evening, a 38-year-old woman was injured when someone fired into a car she was riding in on the 900 block of W. Chicago Avenue about 6 p.m., according to police. The woman and a 33-year-old man were in a vehicle when a gray sedan pulled up next to them and a male passenger in the sedan started shooting, hitting the vehicle and breaking windows. The woman and man drove to the 100 block of West Maple Avenue, where one of them called 911, and the woman was treated at the scene for cuts to her shoulder, police said. Authorities weren't immediately certain whether she was shot or injured by flying glass. No one was in custody in the shootings, police said.
    Source: Chicago Tribune

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