Shootings leave 3 dead, 16 wounded


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The scene near where three people were shot, a 16-year-old and 21-year-old fatally, in the 2300 block of North Springfield Avenue in Logan Square late Saturday.


CAPTIONOvernight violence in ChicagoE. Jason Wambsgans, Chicago Tribune
Numerous shell casings on the ground at the scene where four people were shot on 7900 block of South Merrill on Saturday.


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Police investigate at the scene where a 16-year-old boy was fatally shot in the 900 block of North Karlov early Sunday.


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Police investigate at the scene near where three people were shot, a 16-year-old and 21-year-old fatally, in the 2300 block of North Springfield Avenue in Logan Square late Saturday.


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Police close off a store as part of a crime scene near where a 16-year-old boy was shot in the leg on the corner of 51st Street and Wabash Avenue in Washington Park on Saturday.


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Man, 33, injured in South Side shooting
Boy, 17, shot on West Side

Three people were killed, including two 16-year-olds, and sixteen others injured in shootings across the city between late Saturday morning and early Sunday morning, police said.

The fatal shootings occurred near Pulaski Road about two miles apart.

The first was about 11:45 p.m. Saturday a few blocks east of Pulaski in the 2300 block of N. Springfield Avenue in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side. Three people were shot, two fatally, after someone on a sidewalk fired several shots toward a car, police said.

A 21-year-old man, the driver of the car, was pronounced dead at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. He had been shot in the head. A 16-year-old boy also died at that hospital after he suffered a back wound and a grazed cheek.


A third person, 18, is in good condition at Norwegian American Hospital. He was shot in the hand.


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The Cook County medical examiner's office was notified of the two deaths but wouldn't release other information, including the identities of the victims.

The second fatal shooting was south of there, about 1:15 a.m. Sunday in the 900 block of North Karlov Avenue, a few blocks west of Pulaski in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side. A 16-year-old boy was shot in the head and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said. Police had responded to a call of a person shot there and found the boy wounded.


The Cook County medical examiner's office was notified of the death but would not release other details about the incident, including the name of the victim.


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• The most recent shooting left a 23-year-old man wounded in the 2900 block of North Kimball Avenue in the Logan Square neighborhood. The shooting happened about 4:35 a.m. Sunday. The man was shot in the foot and isn't cooperating with investigators. Police said he's in good condition at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
• Three men and a 15-year-old boy were wounded in the South Chicago neighborhood about 2 a.m. Sunday in at least the third attack at a single home on the 7900 block of South Merrill Avenue this year.
The 15-year-old, a 20-year-old, and a 27-year-old all walked into South Shore Hospital together with gunshot wounds. The boy was grazed in the leg and is in good condition, police said. The 20-year-old suffered a wound to the side and is in stable condition and the oldest of the three at South Shore suffered a hand wound and refused treatment.
The one person police found at the scene, a 30-year-old man, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with arm and foot wounds, police said.

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The shooting happened in front of a house where people have been shot a number of other times this year. Sunday morning, fifteen closely-grouped shell casings sat under paper cards where two teens had been shot in May and another man shot a few weeks ago.
• About 1:50 a.m. Sunday, a 24-year-old man was shot a number of times in the legs and buttocks while he was outside in the 8700 block of South Union Avenue in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side, police said. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center to be treated for his wound and police said he's in stable condition.
• A shooting in the Marquette Park neighborhood about 12:50 a.m. Sunday left one man wounded. He was shot in the leg and taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center. No one is in custody. The 20-year-old was walking when police said he "heard shots and felt pain." The shooting happened in the 6300 block of South Albany Avenue.

• About 11:10 p.m. Saturday, a 16-year-old boy was shot in the leg on the corner of 51st Street and Wabash Avenue in the Washington Park neighborhood. He was on the sidewalk when someone in a light-colored passing car shot toward him and then fled southbound, police said. Police blocked Wabash at 51st and taped off a corner store as part of the crime scene. He was taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in good condition, police said.
• Someone shot two women in the Near West Side neighborhood about 11 p.m. Saturday, police said. A 41-year-old woman was shot in the lower back and a 45-year-old woman in the leg, police said. The women walked into Stroger hospital independent of each other but had been shot about the same time at the same place: the 2400 block of West Adams Street.

• About 10:45 p.m. Saturday, a 13-year-old boy was shot in the 1300 block of South Avers Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side. Someone dropped him off at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was treated for an arm wound. The boy and his brother had been fighting three other boys when one of the three opened fire, police said. The boy is in stable condition.
• At about 9 p.m. Saturday, an 18-year-old man sustained a gunshot wound to his buttocks, said Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Thomas Sweeney. The man was shot on the 3700 block of South Wabash Avenue in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South side and was taken in good condition to Stroger hospital, Sweeney said. Someone in a light-colored car opened fire toward the man, police said.
• A 17-year-old boy was shot about 5:10 p.m. Saturday on the 500 block of North Hamlin Avenue in the Humboldt Parkneighborhood, Sweeney said. The teen, whose condition was unknown, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, according toChicago Fire Department officials. The shooting happened at 5:10 p.m., police said
• A 33-year-old man was wounded late Saturday morning in a drive-by shooting on the South Side in the city's East Side neighborhood. The shooting happened about 11:25 a.m. on the 9800 block of Avenue L, said Sweeney. According to preliminary reports, a gunman fired from a dark-colored vehicle, striking a man in his chest, said Sweeney. The man was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where his condition was stabilized, said Sweeney.
• A 15-year-old boy was shot about 11:15 a.m. Saturday in the 8500 block of South Exchange Avenue in the South Chicago neighborhood, police said. The teen suffered graze wounds to the arm and back and is in good condition at Advocate Trinity Hospital, police said. The teen was walking when an unknown offender fired shots in his direction.

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