2 dead, 14 wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago

Posted: Sep 13, 2014 9:51 PM PDT
Updated: Sep 15, 2014 7:00 AM PDT


CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) -Two people were killed and and at least 14 other people were wounded in weekend shootings across the city.

The most recent fatal shooting happened Sunday afternoon in the North Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side.

Charles Labon, 28, was walking in the 4100 block of West 16th about 1:50 p.m. when a gray minivan pulled up and someone inside started shooting, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Labon, of the 1900 block of South St. Louis, was shot in the chest and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:20 p.m., authorities said.

Police said the shooting may be gang-related.

A day earlier, a teenage boy was shot and killed in the South Side Bronzeville neighborhood.

Michael Bloodson Jr., 17, was shot in the head about 3 p.m. in the 3900 block of South Prairie, police said.

Bloodson, of the 4600 block of South Drexel, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:44 p.m., authorities said.

Police said the shooting is gang-related, and that the boy was a documented gang member.

Early Sunday, a pair of shootings within hours of each other on city expressways left two people hurt.

About 3 a.m., a man whose age was not immediately known was in a vehicle traveling southbound on the Dan Ryan Expressway (I-90/94) when he was shot near the 79th Street exit, Illinois State Police said. He was taken to Christ Medical Center, but his condition was not known.

At 1 a.m., a person was shot on the Kennedy Expressway on the West Side. The male, whose age was not immediately known, was in a red Ford Mustang that was heading northbound on the Kennedy when he was shot near the Fullerton exit ramp, police said. He was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, state police said, but his condition was not available.

The most recent non-fatal shooting happened early Monday in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side.

About 3:45 a.m., a 28-year-old man was shot in the arm and torso in the 200 block of West 118th Street, police said. His condition was stabilized at Stroger.

Sunday evening, a 14-year-old boy was shot in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side.

He was walking outside in the 7400 block of South Dante about 7 p.m. when he heard shots and felt pain, police said. The boy, a documented gang member, was taken to Jackson Park Hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg and his condition was stabilized, police said.

At least 10 other people were injured in shootings across the city since Friday night.

Additionally, police shot and critically wounded a man after he allegedly struck an officer with a car Saturday night on the West Side.

Undercover officers driving an unmarked squad car stopped the suspect — a man thought to be in his 20s — about 10:15 p.m. in the 2300 block of West Lake as part of a narcotics investigation, according to police and an officers' union spokesman.

After the stop, two officers got out of their car, but the suspect accelerated his vehicle and struck the squad car, police said.

One officer was knocked to the ground and almost run over when the suspect tried to drive off, but the other officer shot the driver multiple times in the upper body, officials said.

The officer was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where his condition had stabilized, officials said. The man shot by police was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition , officials said.

The Independent Police Review Authority is investigating the shooting, spokesman Larry Merritt said.

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