At least 39 shot, 6 fatally in Chicago weekend violence

At least six people were killed and 33 others, including a 16-year-old boy, injured by gunfire across Chicago over the past weekend.

The most recent reported fatality happened Sunday in Lithuanian Plaza on the Southwest Side. A 26-year-old man was shot about 1:05 p.m. in the 6900 block of South Campbell Avenue and taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died, Chicago police said.

On Sunday morning, a 46-year-old man was shot to death in Lawndale on the West Side.

About 9:50 a.m., he was sitting in the driver’s seat of a vehicle in the 3900 block of West Roosevelt Road, talking to someone standing on the passenger side, when someone wearing a black surgical mask and a black hoodie with a design on it fired shots at him, police said. He was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Another man was killed in a shooting Sunday morning in South Chicago.

The 39-year-old was walking about 3:10 a.m. in the 7900 block of South South Chicago Avenue when a male shot him in the neck, Chicago police said. He was found unresponsive and pronounced dead on the scene.

On Saturday afternoon, a 30-year-old man was gunned down in Lawndale on the West Side.

Sharn Green was shot in the head and chest about 4:30 p.m. in the 1300 block of South Avers Avenue, officials said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died.

A 27-year-old man was fatally shot Friday night in Austin on the West Side.

The man was found in a parked vehicle with gunshot wounds to his chest and face about 10:05 p.m. in the 5700 block of West Midway Park, police said. A male had apparently walked up to the vehicle and fired several shots, and the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

The weekend’s first fatal shooting left a 24-year-old man dead in South Chicago.

Isaiah Armstrong was found unresponsive about 5:40 p.m. in the 8400 block of South Escanaba Avenue, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He had a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene. He lived in Calumet Heights.

The prior weekend saw 54 people shot throughout the city, 12 fatally.