For 4th straight weekend, a child fatally shot in city

For the fourth weekend in a row, a child has been fatally shot in Chicago.

This time, it was 15-yearold Terrance Malden, who was among nine people killed and at least others 30 wounded from Thursday afternoon into Saturday evening as violence surged during another chaotic weekend.

Most of the names of the dead in the grim tally were not available and Chicago police said no arrests have been made.

Terrance was in the 9800 block of South Hoxie Avenue in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood on the Far South Side when an assailant in light-colored car shot him about 4:50 p.m. Friday.

The teenager, who was hit in the chest, was rushed to University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition but was pronounced dead at 5:37 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Terrance’s death marks the fourth weekend in a row a child has been fatally shot in the city. On July 4, Natalia Wallace, 7, was shot while playing on the parkway with several young children in front of her grandparents’ home. On June 27, Sincere Gaston, 1, was shot with his mother as they drove home from a laundromat and Lena Nunez, 10, was hit by a stray bullet while inside her Logan Square home and on June 20, Mekhi James, 3, was killed while riding in the back seat of a vehicle with his father the day before Father’s Day.

Eight other homicides from gun violence took place, mainly on the West and South Sides.

Shortly before 7 p.m. Friday, 21-year-old Sergio Cervantes was fatally wounded in the 3400 block of South Paulina Street in the McKinley Park neighborhood.

Someone inside a vehicle that pulled up opened fire, hitting Cervantes in the face and back. Cervantes, of the 3600 block of South Paulina Street, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the medical examiner’s office.

On the West Side about 1:50 a.m. Saturday in the Austin neighborhood in the 5400 block of West Congress Parkway, two men, 31 and 35, were standing on the sidewalk when shots were fired, striking the younger man in the chest. The 31year-old was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead while the older man suffered a graze wound to the left hand.

In the West Town neighborhood about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, an unidentified 41year-old man was shot dead in the 300 block of North Ashland Avenue in the West Town neighborhood.

Another 41-year-old man was slain about a half-hour later, at 1 a.m. in the 7000 block of South King Drive in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood, police said. Officers responded to ShotSpotter technology and found the victim in an alley. He had suffered gunshot wounds to the back and the chest, and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Early Friday, about 12:10 a.m. on the Far South Side, a 28-year-old man became embroiled in an argument with another man at a gas station at 111th and State streets. The other man, in a gray SUV, followed the 28year-old who drove away in another vehicle with a 26year-old woman. Suddenly, at 11100 South Michigan Avenue, the man in the SUV pulled up alongside them and shot them both.

The man suffered a graze wound to the head but the woman, shot in the head, was pronounced dead at the U. of C. Medical Center, the medical examiner’s office said.

Friday about 5:45 a.m., Konrad Hudyka, 19, was shot dead in the 5400 block of South Talman Avenue, in the Gage Park neighborhood. Hudyka was in the home of a friend when a gunman, also in the home, shot the him in the head, police said. He died of a gunshot wound to the face, according to the medical examiner.

Later Friday, shortly before 11 a.m., two men, 30 and about 25, were shot in the 4000 block of West Potomac Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood when an assailant ran up, shot them, and ran away, police said. The younger man was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead and the other man, shot in the hip, was taken to Stroger Hospital.

Thursday, about 3:40 p.m. in the 400 block of South Laramie Avenue, in the South Austin neighborhood, a man was standing outside a convenience store when a man he didn’t know confronted him, shooting him in the head and chest, police said. The unidentified man was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was he was pronounced dead.