2 killed, 7 wounded in weekend shootings

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By Quinn Ford Chicago Tribune contact the reporter

Two people were killed, and at least seven others were wounded in shootings in Chicago over the weekend.

The latest fatal shooting happened Saturday morning in the South Chicago neighborhood.


About 11:15 a.m., police responded to a call of shots fired in the 8100 block of South Chappel Avenue and found a 22-year-old man who had been shot several times in an alleyway, police said.


The man, idenitified as Savoy Young, was pronounced dead on the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Police could not provide further details about how Young, of the 8200 block of South Luella Avenue, was shot.

Friday evening, a 34-year-old man was killed in West Englewood. The man, identified as Leandrew Harper, was shot about 5:40 p.m. Friday in the 7000 block of South Honore Street, the same block where he lives, according to police and the medical examiner.


Police said Harper was shot multiple times and taken to Holy Cross Hospital where he later died.


As of early Monday, no one was in custody in connection with either shooting.


Young and Harper were among 30 people who were slain in Chicago during the month of January, according to Chicago Tribune data. The city saw six more homicides this past month than in January 2014. The month also saw an increase in nonfatal shootings. At least 138 people were wounded by gunfire across the city in January, up from about 100 shootings in the same time period last year, according to Tribune data.

Those figures include at least seven people wounded in shootings across the West and South sides since Friday afternoon.

Most recently, a pastor was shot inside a church in the Back of the Yards neighborhood Sunday afternoon.


The shooting happened in a small Evangelical church in the 1700 block of West 47th Street, police said. Someone walked up and fired shots into the church, police said. The pastor, a 40-year-old man, was shot in his arm and taken to an area hospital, police said.


It's not clear what led to the shooting.


A 28-year-old man was stabbed to death Sunday night when he intervened in a fight at a party in the South Loop, police said.


About 8 p.m., the man was at a party in the 2300 block of South Michigan Avenue when a boyfriend and girlfriend got into an argument, police said. The 28-year-old man tried to intervene, and the boyfriend stabbed him, police said.


The 28-year-old was taken to Mercy Hospital and Medical Center with stab wounds to the abdomen and was later pronounced dead there. The boyfriend, who was also injured in the incident, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Charges against the boyfriend are pending police said.


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