Weekend gun violence in Chicago: 4 dead, 22 wounded


A federal agent suffered serious injuries during an undercover investigation in the Ashburn neighborhood.


By Quinn Ford,Chicago Tribune contact the reporter

Four people were killed and at least 22 more were wounded by gunfire in Chicago since Friday. Among the victims were a Loyola University student and a 9-year-old boy.

The gun violence also included three shootings involving law enforcement officers. One man was killed, two others were wounded and a Drug Enforcement Agency officer was hit and seriously injured by a car, according to authorities.

Off-duty officer fatally shoots man in bar

A man was shot and killed in a Mount Greenwood bar Sunday evening by an off-duty police sergeant after the man shot and wounded someone during an argument, police said.

The gunfire erupted about 6:30 p.m. Sunday inside the Blackthorn Pub at 3300 W. 111th St. A fight broke out between two bar patrons and one of them pulled ot a gun and shot the other, according to Chicago Police Deputy Chief Berscott Ruiz.

The off-duty sergeant pulled out his service pistol and told the gunman to drop his weapon, Ruiz said, but the gunman began to "fan his gun through the bar" and the sergeant fatally shot him, Ruiz said.

A weapon was recovered from the scene, he said.

Police did not provide the ages of the people involved or the condition of the second man shot. As of early Monday morning, the dead gunman's identity had not been released.

DEA agent hit by car

A DEA agent was hit by a car during an investigation in the Ashburn neighborhood on the South Side Sunday afternoon.

About 12:50 p.m. Sunday, police were called to the area near the 8200 block of South Kedzie Avenue where they found the DEA agent with a head injury and a broken leg.

The agent was working a drug investigation with other officers and stopped a car they believed was transporting cocaine, according to a statement from the Chicago Field Division of the DEA. When they tried to arrest the driver, he took off, hitting the DEA agent who was on foot.

Shots were fired at the car and a suspect was being treated at a hospital, the DEA said. The suspect showed up at the hospsital with a gunshot wound and was identified as the owner of the car. He was put into custody, authorities said.

Police seriously wound suspect in Back of the Yards
Police officers responded to a call of a gang-related disturbance around 10:45 p.m. Saturday near 47th and Ada streets, according to Deputy Police Chief Carlos Velez.
Officers saw a group of people, one of them with a handgun, in the street next to a car that blocked traffic, according to Pat Camden, a spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police.
Police officers chased the man with the handgun. The man, believed to be in his 20s, ran into an alley near 48th and Throop streets. "Partway into the alley, the armed offender turned toward the officer and pointed the gun at him," Velez said.

The police officer shot the man three times, hitting him in the head, according to Velez and Camden.

In another shooting in the Back of the Yards, a man was shot during a robbery about 9:10 p.m. Sunday. The 33-year-old man was in the 2000 block of West 53rd Street when six to eight males walked up to him, Gaines said.
The group took the man's cell phone and shot him in his side, Gaines said. The man was taken in serious condition to John H. Stroger Hospital, Gaines said.

Loyola Shooting
Mutahir Rauf, 23, a pre-med student at Loyola, was walking with his brother down an alleyway in the 1200 block of West Albion Avenue in Rogers Park about 7:50 p.m. Friday when two people approached them, authorities said.
One person pulled a gun and ordered the brothers to turn over their money. Rauf apparently believed the gun was a toy and reached for it, according to a statement from Ald. Joe Moore, 49th. During a scuffle, the gun fired and Rauf was hit in the chest.
He was pronounced dead on the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Friends remembered Rauf him as an intelligent, humble with an outgoing personality. The shooting shook the Loyola University student community. The university held a "walk of remembrance" over the weekend and has scheduled a service to pray for nonviolence for Wednesday, according to university officials.

Englewood shootings
--A 17-year-old boy was in the 5800 block of South Sangamon Street in Englewood about 11 p.m. Sunday when someone inside a passing blue van opened fire on him, according to Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines.
The teen was taken to St. Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center, where he was treated for a gunshot wound to his foot, Gaines said. The boy was listed in good condition.
-- Earlier in the day, a 23-year-old man was wounded in the same neighborhood.
The shooting happened about 12:45 p.m. on the 5600 block of South Halsted Street. The man got into a verbal argument with someone who pulled a gun and shot the man in his buttocks, police said.
The man was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital where his condition was stabilized, police said.

2 shot in East Garfield Park
A 22-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman were each shot in the leg in an attack in the 700 block of South Albany Avenue just before 7:30 p.m. Sunday, according to Police News Affairs Officer Veejay Zala.
The man was in good condition on the scene and was taken to a hospital where his condition stabilized. The woman was apparently driven to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she walked into the emergency room to be treated.

Man killed while walking with brother in South Shore
A 20-year-old man was killed while walking with his brother near his home in the 7400 block of South Euclid Avenue about 9 a.m. Friday, authorities.
Goodwin was shot in his back, left leg and abdomen and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The shooting happened across the street from South Shore International College Prep.

2 shot on East Side
A 26-year-old man was fatally shot around 4:45 p.m. on the 10600 block of South Avenue O, according to Police News Affairs.

James Sweeten suffered a gunshot wound to his chest and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead. Another man, 23, suffered wounds to his torso and arm and was also taken to the same hospital, where his condition was stabilized, said police.

Other shootings
From early Saturday morning through early Sunday morning, at least nine people were wounded by gunfire, including a 9-year-old boy who was shot in the leg on the Near West Side Saturday morning.
On Friday, at least eight people were shot -- three fatally -- in separate shootings across the city.

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