7 killed, at least 49 wounded in weekend shootings across city


Shooting scenes in Chicago from Friday, June 24, to Sunday, June 26, 2016.
(Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)


Chicago Tribune staff Contact Reporter


Seven people were killed and at least 48 people were wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago.

So far this year, over 1,880 people have been shot across the city and more than 200 of those wounded have died of their wounds, according to records kept by the Chicago Tribune. At least 317 people have been killed this year by shooting, stabbing or other means, Tribune records show.
The busiest period during the weekend was from Saturday morning to early Sunday, when four people were fatally shot and 26 others were hurt.
A 55-year-old man died after being shot multiples times while attending a birthday party in East Garfield Park Sunday morning. Two women, ages 35 and 19, were wounded in the same shooting, according to police. The man was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
After the shooting, at least 100 people lingered on the block, which was decorated with balloons and shiny red streamers. According to one bystander, there weren't any signs of trouble before the shooting started.
"There was not an argument, nobody stepped on nobody's foot," she said.
About 11:45 a.m. Saturday morning, a 19-year-old pregnant woman was shot along with three friends in the Morgan Park neighborhood. The group was in the 1400 block of West 114th Place when the shooting occurred.
The 19-year-old was hit in the right leg and back where she is in serious but stable condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said.

At 1:30 a.m. June 26, 2016, an attack at a party in East Garfield Park left a man killed and a woman wounded. Witnesses said they were outside attending a birthday party in the 700 block of North Ridgeway Avenue when someone began shooting.
The man, 55, was shot multiple times and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The woman, 35, was taken to Stroger Hospital. Her condition was stabilized. (Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune)




A 20-year-old woman and two men, ages 20 and 23, were also wounded in the shooting.
Between Friday evening and early Saturday, three more people were killed, and at least 14 others were wounded in separate shootings. Six people were shot between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday, including the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Reginald Turner.
Turner was shot in the head around 10 p.m. and pronounced dead at the scene at the corner of 77th and Sangamon streets in the Gresham neighborhood.
From Sunday afternoon to early Monday, nine people were wounded in separate shootings.
Also, Sunday evening, an off-duty Cook County deputy sheriffshot and wounded a 15-year-old boy and a 23-year-old man after the two pointed their guns at him in Marquette Park on the Southwest Side, according to authorities.
The off-duty officer was sitting inside his vehicle, eating food, in the 7000 block of South Kanst Drive when he saw the teen and the man arguing with and then subsequently shooting at someone in a nearby car.
The officer announced he was a police officer and intervened, shooting the teen in the leg and the man in the ankle.

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