ALDERMAN: PREGNANT WOMAN AMONG 4 KILLED IN GANG SHOOTING
A pregnant woman was among four people shot to death Friday night in Brighton Park, in the latest bloodshed stemming from an ongoing gang war in the Southwest Side neighborhood, officials said.
The woman and three men were found in a car by officers responding to a call of shots fired about 8: 35 p. m. in the 4700 block of South Fairfield, according to Chicago Police.
One of the victims, 28- year- old Ida Arvizu, was pregnant, according to Ald. Ray Lopez ( 15th).
The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the slain men as Michelle A. Cano, 21; Joel Sandoval, 24; and Miguel Sandoval, 27.
They all suffered multiple gunshot wounds and their deaths were ruled homicides.
The slain men were members of the Satan’s Disciples street gang, with the assault rifle gunfire thought to be carried out by Latin Saints members in retaliation for a Thursday night shooting in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, Lopez said on Saturday.
Authorities think Satan’s Disciples members returned fire once again in a Saturday morning shooting that left two men wounded, according to the alderman, who said the ongoing gang war has been fueled on social media.
“The revolving door of retaliation keeps rolling,” Lopez said. “They are acting like this is a game. This is a blood sport for them.”
Arvizu lived in the neighborhood where she was killed, according to the medical examiner’s office. Cano lived in Englewood and the Sandovals in Gage Park.
At the crime scene Friday night, police placed a white sheet over the shattered windshield of the sedan, which idled at the corner of 47th and Fairfield next to a warehouse. Dozens of gold rifle casings littered the street and sidewalk nearby.
The shooting inched Chicago closer to 500 homicides this year. The city had logged 494 homicides as of Saturday evening, including 459 shooting deaths, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun- Times.