57 Shot across Chicago since Friday Evening


57 Shot across Chicago since Friday Evening

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Since Friday night, five people have been killed and 52 others wounded in shootings throughout Chicago.

An eruption of violence between Saturday night and Sunday morning accounted for 18 people shot — one of whom died from their wounds.

So far this weekend, 18 people were shot after 5 p.m. Friday evening, 23 were shot Saturday, and 21 were shot Sunday.

A single shooting Friday wounded seven people, including a 3-year-old boy in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side, The Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Most of the group was on a sidewalk about 8 p.m. when shots rang out in the 1600 block of West 65th Street, according to Chicago police. The boy was shot in the left shin and taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where his condition stabilized.

A 30-year-old man who was shot in the back showed up at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was in serious condition, police said. Paramedics took four other men, ranging from age 26 to 30, to local hospitals, where they were treated for their gunshot wounds. Their conditions had stabilized.

A seventh person, a 38-year-old woman, was standing in a nearby backyard when a stray bullet grazed her in the left arm, police said. She was treated on the scene and released.

A man was fatally shot about 8 p.m. Saturday evening in the West Englewood neighborhood. Matthew Hudson, 26, was found on a sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the back in the 2300 block of West 72nd, according to police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Hudson was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where later died, authorities said. He lived several blocks away from the shooting in the Ashburn neighborhood.

A man was shot dead Sunday morning in the Uptown neighborhood on the North Side. Dennis Thomas Jr., 33, was sitting in a vehicle about 8:10 a.m. in the 4600 block of North Clifton when someone pulled up on a bicycle and shot him several times, according to Chicago police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Thomas was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said. He lived in the same block where he was shot.

In addition to the shootings reported this weekend, two teenage boys were found shot to death late Sunday in the Golden Gate neighborhood on the Far South Side, according to police.

The boys were discovered in a wooded area between a park and Aldridge Elementary School shortly before midnight near the intersection of 131st Street and Rhodes, police said. They had gunshot wounds to their bodies and were pronounced dead at the scene.

Police were unsure when the shooting occurred.

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office hasn’t released details about their deaths.

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