Forty minutes in Chicago: 2 killed, 3 hurt in shooting

CHICAGO—In a span of just 40 minutes Thursday night, two people were killed and three others were wounded in shootings in Chicago.

By sunrise Friday, a total of 10 people were wounded across the city, from Rogers Park to the north and Gresham to the south.

One of those slain was 16-yearold Davion Tony, according to family members who gathered outside Mount Sinai Hospital. He was standing outside in the 1100 block of North Hamlin Avenue about 6:15 p.m. Thursday when a dark-colored sedan pulled up and two people got out and fired shots, police said.

Some of Davion’s family fell to the pavement in grief outside the hospital, cradling their arms around their knees and rocking back and forth. Others hurried away from the entryway.

Davion’s father, Mike Matthews, said he was leading a sports clinic in the gymnasium of a local elementary school when he scrolled through his Facebook page and found a post warning parents to check on their children.

Moments later, Matthews received a call from his daughter telling him that his son had been shot.

“I was in a gym full of kids and I had to break the workout down so I could come over here,” said Matthews, still dressed in basketball shorts and a T-shirt. “I’m still processing it all. It’s still raw.”

Like most kids his age, Davion, a sophomore at Orr High School, was unsure about his future, Matthews said. He had acquired a passion for sports from his father but he also had a knack for computers.

“He loved computers,” Matthews said. “You put him in front of a computer, he could figure it out.

“I never could understand how he’d figure it out. He was always messing with some gadget or video game.”

Two other people were injured in the same attack. A 24-yearold man suffered wounds to the left leg and side. He was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital, police said. A third victim, a 33-year-old woman, was shot in the left ankle. She was in good condition at Stroger, police said.

In the other fatal shooting, a 30-year-old man suffered a wound to the head about 6 p.m. in the 5100 block of South Prairie Avenue in the Washington Park neighborhood, police said.