Thread: 7 dead, 52 wounded, House party shooting closes violent weekend in Chicago

House party shooting closes violent weekend in Chicago: 7 dead, 52 wounded


Weekend photos from Chicago shootings: July 15-17, 2016

Chicago Tribune staff Contact Reporter


It was raining hard and Donre Domio at first thought the loud bangs were thunder.

Then blue and red lights flooded her block in Austin as police and paramedics pulled up close to midnight Sunday. Two men had been shot at a house party in the 5000 block of West Jackson Boulevard, the end of another violent weekend in Chicago that saw seven people killed and at least 52 wounded.
The toll brings the number of people shot in Chicago this year to nearly 2,200. At least 329 of them have been killed, about 100 more than this time last year.
The weekend dead included one of the men at the house party, an 18-year-old who was shot in the head. Another man, 33, was shot in the chest and the right leg, and he was stabilized at Stroger Hospital, police said.
The 18-year-old was pronounced dead on the scene. Officers and detectives huddled around his body in a grassy area in front of a two-story home on the north side of Jackson. Officers cordoned off about half a block of Jackson between Lavergne and Leamington avenues.
Domio said she was inside a home on the block when her teenage son yelled, "They’re shooting. They’re shooting."
She said the block, where her mother had lived for at least four decades, has been generally quiet.
About three hours after the shooting, a man in a white T-shirt and jeans walked away from the scene. He said the 18-year-old was his brother.

Two teenage boys were shot, one fatally, in the 4700 block of South Ellis Avenue in the Kenwood neighborhood July 17, 2016. (CBS Chicago)




The man put his hands on the back of his head and leaned on the building of Christ the King Jesuit College Preparatory School at Jackson and Leamington. A woman in gray sweater and pants hugged him.
Police said no one was in custody.
There was another double shooting in Austin just three hours earlier, a little more than a mile north, according to police. A 20-year-old man was killed and another 20-year-old man was wounded, according to Officer Kevin Quaid, a police spokesman.
Officers responded to a call of gunfire in the 500 block of North Lavergne Avenue and found the men inside a black SUV in the 100 block of Lavergne, he said. The driver of the SUV fled.
One of the men suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Quaid said. The other man was shot in the leg and was stabilized at Stroger, Quaid said.
The most violent stretch of the weekend was late Saturday through early Sunday when at least 22 people were shot, three of them fatally, including a boy 15 or 16 years old.
The boy was shot in the Kenwood neighborhood around 12:50 a.m. Sunday as he walked with a 16-year-old boy in the 4700 block of South Ellis Avenue, police said. A red van pulled up and someone inside fired shots. The boy dropped to the ground and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Three more people were killed and 15 others were woundedSunday morning through the night, according to police. A man was killed and 18 others were wounded between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Saturday.
Saturday evening, a 40-year-old man was shot by police in the West Garfield Park neighborhood during a raid on a business suspected of storing illegal weapons, authorities said.

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