At least 15 shot overnight across city


November 17, 2013|By Adam Sege | Tribune reporter



Tribune photo illustration (Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune)

At least 15 people were shot across the city during a roughly seven-hour stretch starting Saturday night, including 11 shot within three hours early Sunday morning, according to police.

Three of the injured were shot about 1:15 a.m. as they walked down the sidewalk in the 7500 block of South Ingleside Avenue in the Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side, police said.

Someone in a dark-colored sedan opened fire, striking the ankles of a 16-year-old girl, a 19-year-old man and a 21-year-old man, police said.



The girl was brought by ambulance to University of Chicago Medical Center, and someone drove the men to Jackson Park Hospital, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said. Their conditions were stabilized.

In a separate shooting about 2:10 a.m., someone opened fire on a car in the 1600 block of West 44th Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side, police said.

A bullet shattered the rear window of the car and struck a 21-year-old passenger in the head, police said. The car's driver continued to the intersection of West 43rd Street and South Racine Avenue, where the car's occupants flagged down a private security guard and waited for an ambulance.

The 21-year-old man was taken in critical condition to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, where he was brought into emergency surgery, police said.

In other overnight shootings:
• Two men, both 21, were shot about 4 a.m. in the 3500 block of West Douglas Boulevard in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side, police said. Two gunmen opened fire, striking one of the men in the ankle and the other in the thigh, police said. Someone drove the men to Mount Sinai Hospital, where they were listed in good condition.
• About 3:30 a.m., a 48-year-old man was shot during an attempted robbery in the 7800 block of South Burnham Avenue in the South Shore neighborhood on the South Side, Alfaro said. Two assailants approached the man as he was entering an apartment and tried to rob him, police said. A struggle ensued, and the man was shot in the shoulder. He taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.
• Shortly before 2:30 a.m., two gunmen stepped out of a dark SUV and opened fire at a group standing in the 5100 block of West Maypole Avenue, in the South Austin neighborhood on the West Side, police said. A 33-year-old man was struck in the foot and lower back and taken in serious condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, a 25-year-old man was shot in the back and taken in serious condition to Stroger, and a 36-year-old man was shot in the leg and buttocks and taken to Loretto Hospital, where his condition was stabilized. The 36-year-old was expected to be transferred to Mount Sinai.
• About 1:30 a.m., a man arrived at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston after being shot in the leg in the 7300 block of North Campbell Avenue in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on the Far North Side. He was listed in good condition.
• A masked gunman approached a 29-year-old man and opened fire about 9:50 p.m. in the 5200 block of West Congress Parkway in South Austin, Alfaro said. The 29-year old was struck in the elbow and both thighs and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. His condition was stabilized.

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