6 killed in shootings
At least six people were killed and 33 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago late Friday into Sunday morning, authorities said.
The youngest victim of the weekend’s violence, a 14-year-old boy, was shot in the 3900 block of South King Drive at 9:30 p.m. Saturday, according to police.
The boy was hit in the back and was taken to University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital, police said.
On Saturday, another teen — a 17-year-old girl — was shot and later died.
Taylor Diorio, 17, of the 10000 block of Major Avenue in Chicago Ridge, suffered a gunshot wound to the head around 5 a.m. as she sat in a vehicle in the 2100 block of West 35th, officials said.
Diorio was pronounced dead at 3:29 p.m. at Mount Sinai Hospital.
On Friday night, a 22-yearold Aurora man was killed and another person was wounded in the West Side Austin neighborhood, according to authorities.
Richard Johnson, of the 1600 block of Plum Street, was killed in a shooting in the 500 block of South Kilpatrick around 6:20 p.m., officials said.
He was initially taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition, where he later died, authorities said. Another man also was injured in the shooting and taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition.
An 18-year-old man was shot and killed just a block from his West Pullman home on the Far South Side around 12:15 a.m. Saturday, authorities said. Derrick L. Baker, of the 11600 block of South Yale, was shot in the head near 115th street and Wentworth, according to the medical examiner’s office.
He was dead at the scene, officials said. The attack also wounded a 25-year-old man, who was treated at Roseland Hospital in “stable” condition for gunshot wounds to the knee and foot.
Around 10:36 a.m. on Saturday, police found a man dead on the front lawn of a home in the 700 block of East 92nd, police said. Jason Smith, 28, was shot multiple times, officials said. Witnesses told police Smith had been walking with a friend when someone carrying a gun approached the duo and opened fire, police said.
A man found shot in a van parked on the South Side was pronounced dead Saturday but it is unclear when he died. Anthony Carter, 36, of the 4900 block of West Lexington Street, was found shot dead in a van that had been parked in the 7400 block of South Peoria Street for five days, according to police.
$900K bond for knife-wielding man shot by police
A west suburban man has been charged with attempted murder after he was shot by police while wielding a knife early Saturday following a car accident in the Loop.
Bond was set at $900,000 in court Sunday.
Nomad Khan, 20, of the 1000 block of Beninford Lane in Westmont was charged with four counts of attempted first-degree murder and one count of ag- gravated assault to a government employee, all felonies, according to police.
Khan is next scheduled to appear in Cook County court on Friday.
At 1:52 a.m. Saturday, a driver armed with a knife exited his vehicle after a car accident and attempted to harm the other driver at La Salle and Monroe streets, said police News Affairs Officer Ronald Gaines.
A security guard from a nearby building was injured while trying to intervene between the two drivers, Gaines said. The female security guard was stabbed in the back.
An on-duty police sergeant arrived on the scene and told the driver to drop the knife. The driver refused and came toward the sergeant, who shot the man in the hip.
NU students robbed at gunpoint
Three Northwestern University students were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday in north suburban Evanston.
The three female students were walking in the 2000 block of Pratt Court when two men approached them around 1:10 a.m., according to a statement from the Evanston Police Department.
The men told the women to stop walking, the statement said, and one of the men took out a silver handgun and snatched a student’s purse.
The two other women were told to hand over their purses, and the men ran westbound on Foster Avenue, the statement said, adding that none of the women were injured.