11 shot, including 3-year-old, across city
By Peter Nickeas
August 23, 2014 11:37 A.M.
Chicago Tribune
A 3-year-old boy was shot in the head on the West Side and at least 10 others were wounded in shootings across the city from Friday afternoon into Saturday morning, according to authorities.
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The boy was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital after he was shot in the 4300 block of West Monroe Street in the city's West Garfield Park neighborhood about 7:30 p.m. Friday. Police said the boy was in a closet with at least one other child and playing with the gun when it discharged, hitting the boy in the head and leaving him in critical condition.
In other shootings:
• An 18-year-old was shot about 6:45 a.m. Saturday in the 2700 block of West 24th Street, just west of Washtenaw Avenue, in the Little Village neighborhood on the Southwest Side. He was dropped off at Saint Anthony's Hospital - a couple blocks away on California Avenue - and then taken to Mount Sinai Hospital - just a couple more blocks north.
It was at least the third shooting near the intersection this year. A couple weeks ago, a 16-year-old boy was shot to death on Washtenaw at 27th Street. A memorial for him remained outside the apartment building where he was killed, with one of the candles still burning into day.
Earlier this summer, a woman had been shot about the same location as Saturday morning's shooting. She was taken to a hospital in critical condition with a stomach wound and died a few weeks later.
The block is a known gang hangout that has prompted residents to seek a blue-light police camera from the city, though they have been unsuccessful to this point. Walls in the area are caked with layers of paint used to cover over gang graffiti, some of it still fresh Saturday morning.
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• An 18-year-old man was shot in the head about 5:45 a.m. Saturday in the 10700 block of South Hoxie Street in the South Deering neighborhood on the Far South Side. Other details weren't immediately available.
• About 3:30 a.m. Saturday, a 22-year-old walked into Advocate Trinity Hospital with gunshot wounds to his groin and both legs, police said. He had been shot at 99th Street and Torrence Avenue in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood on the Far South Side.
• Another man was shot about 3:15 a.m. Saturday in the 9800 block of South Yates Avenue, also in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood. The 26-year-old did not cooperate with investigators, police said. He had been shot in the calf and was in good condition at Advocate Trinity Hospital. The Yates and Torrence shootings happened about 15 minutes apart, roughly two blocks from each other.
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• @Jacque Bauer Actually I think the deceased "acted stupidly."
SSTarget
at 12:37 PM August 23, 2014
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• Someone shot a 20-year-old about 1:20 a.m. Saturday in the West Town neighborhood. The man was in a car among a large group, in the 100 block of North Hoyne Street, when someone in a passing car shot him in the arm. He was taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, where his condition had stabilized.
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• Police said a 24-year-old man was shot on Lake Shore Drive near the Park West neighborhood on the North Side about 12:20 a.m. Saturday. He was traveling south and was shot just before reaching Fullerton Avenue by someone in a light sedan, police said. The man was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. He pulled off the drive and parked on Fullerton Avenue nearby, where paramedics found him.
• A 34-year-old man was shot about 10:30 p.m. Friday in the 6400 block of South Rockwell Street in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side. He only told police that he heard shots and felt pain. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center with a leg wound, police said.
• Two men in their 20s were shot about 9:05 p.m. Friday in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side. The men, 20 and 24, were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center. The older man had a shoulder wound while the other was shot in the abdomen, police said. They were shot in the 12400 block of South Emerald Avenue.
• Earlier, a man was critically wounded in a shooting on the South Side near the border of the city's Back of the Yards and Englewood neighborhoods. That shooting happened about 4:40 p.m. Friday on the 5300 block of South Laflin Street, said Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Thomas Sweeney. A 31-year-old man, who was approached by a gunman on foot, suffered wounds to his upper body. The victim was taken in critical condition to Stroger hospital, said Sweeney.
Deanese Williams-Harris contributed to this report.
pnickeas@tribune.com | Twitter: @PeterNickeas
• mligue
No poleese shoot them.....no *** shoot them ? I guess Al , Jesse or Eric won't be coming
• mligue
We are actually lucky here in Chicago. If these cretins actually knew how to shoot a gun , there would be ten to fifteen dead every day. There are a lot of leg and graze wounds out there.
• SSTarget
@mligue
If you live in Chicago and consider yourself lucky, you need some psychiatric help!
• cynicRFT2
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"Police said the boy was in a closet with at least one other child and playing with the gun when it discharged, hitting the boy in the head and leaving him in critical condition." and the parent(s) say ???
• paytonthecat
@cynicRFT2 Daddy took the gun and ran: "Police said the boy's father took the gun, the remaining rounds and fled the scene."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-man-critically-wounded-in-south-side-shooting-20140822-story.html
I'm guessing daddy is an illegal gun owner.
• Fed up with the wonder race
This is not a bad total for one day considering we had a lot of rain and flooding.
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• snapboy
So I just want to know, when a 3 year old is shot and killed in Chicago do people call the police? Do they insist that only a [insert race: black, white, Hispanic, Arab] police officer come?
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• SoChicagoan
Mr. Holder, you are needed in Chicago.
Holder? Holder? Holder?
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• Joe E in the IE
@SoChicagoan
Your call cannot be completed at this time. Please check the ethnicity of the shooter and try again.
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