3 killed, 15 wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago

CHICAGO NEWS 03/12/2018, 08:50am

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Three people were killed and at least 15 others were wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago.
In the latest fatal shooting, two men were killed in a Little Village neighborhood auto shop on the Southwest Side. Officers responding to a call of a person shot at 5:49 p.m. in the 3300 block of South Lawndale Avenue found 56-year-old Gilberto Casteneda and a 33-year-old man unresponsive with gunshot wounds to their heads, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. They were both pronounced dead at the scene. Casteneda’s home address wasn’t immediately known.
Earlier Saturday, a 51-year-old man was was shot to death while driving in the South Side Longwood Manor neighborhood. About 3:50 p.m., Elliott Marshall was driving north in the 9500 block of South Vincennes when a vehicle pulled up next to him and someone inside fired shots, authorities said. Marshall was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at the scene at 4:12 p.m. He lived in the Brainerd neighborhood.
The weekend’s latest shooting happened Sunday night in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood on the Far South Side. A 20-year-old man was sitting in the rear passenger seat of a vehicle at 11:52 p.m. in the 800 block of East 130th when he heard shots and felt pain, police said. He showed up at Little Company of Mary Hospital with a gunshot wound to his left shoulder. His condition stabilized.
Another shooting left a man wounded Sunday evening on the Kennedy Expressway near Wilson Avenue. The 27-year-old was riding in a car about 7:45 p.m. when he was shot several times, according to Illinois State Police. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where his condition stabilized.
At least 13 other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago over the weekend.
In addition, a 3-year-old boy accidentally shot his 9-year-old cousin Saturday morning in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.
Last weekend, a man was killed and nine others were wounded in shootings across Chicago.

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