NEWS FLASH
CHICAGO (CHICAGO URBAN DAILY)— Halloween weekend turned bloody across Chicago. Police data released Monday morning shows 32 people shot — five of them killed — in 20 shooting incidents from 6 p.m. Friday to 11:59 p.m. Sunday.
At least four of the victims were juveniles. The youngest life lost was a 15-year-old boy, found on the ground in the 3000 block of West 23rd Street just after 1:30 a.m. Sunday. Police say he was shot in the head in what witnesses described as a drive-by shooting. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The weekend’s other killings stretched from Friday night to Sunday evening. A 44-year-old man died after he was shot in an alley in the 3000 block of West 63rd Street just before 10 p.m. Friday. A 36-year-old man sitting in his car was killed after being shot multiple times by a gunman in another vehicle just before 12:30 p.m. Saturday. A 30-year-old man was shot in the chest during a physical altercation that left three others wounded just after 2 a.m. Sunday. And a male victim of unknown age was shot in the chest just before 5 p.m. Sunday.
Among the wounded was an off-duty Merrionette Park police officer. The 51-year-old was driving in the 2300 block of East 103rd Street at 5:30 p.m. when a gunman in a white Chevy sedan opened fire and crashed into another car. The officer announced herself and exchanged gunfire with the suspect. She was shot in the neck and rushed to the University of Chicago Hospital in stable condition. A 43-year-old male bystander was shot in both legs and is also stable. A second occupant of the suspect’s car was taken into custody at the scene; the gunman fled on foot.
No city should accept a weekend like this as normal. Five families are planning funerals this morning, and dozens more are sitting in hospital rooms waiting for word.
Stay tuned to Chicago Urban Daily as police release more details on these investigations.
Reported by Chicago Urban Daily News. Visit chicagourbandailynews.com for updates.
