Chicago Sun-Times

14- YEAR- OLDBOY AMONG3DEAD­IN WEEKENDSHO­OTINGS

- JacobWitti­ch

A 14- year- old boy was among three people killed and 24 others wounded in shootings across Chicago between Friday afternoon and Sunday night.

The most recent deaths were the latest of more than 380 people fatally shot in the city this year, according to Chicago Sun- Times data. More than 2,200 people have been shot since the start of 2017.

The 14- year- old boy, identified as Damien Santoyo, was killed in a Pilsen neighborho­od drive- by shooting about 2: 35 a. m. Sunday on the South Side. He was standing with two other juveniles on a porch in the 1700 block of South Newberry Avenue when people in a passing vehicle yelled gang slogans and fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Santoyo, who lived in the Ashburn neighborho­od on the Southwest Side, was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene.

About three hours later, 33- yearold Damien Hernandez was killed in a domestic- related shooting in the Southwest Side Clearing neighborho­od. He was battering a 30- year- old woman who pulled out a gun and shot him three times in the 6900 block ofWest 65th Street, police and the medical examiner’s office said. The woman was in custody, and charges were pending Sunday evening.

Marvin Hines, 39, was killed in the weekend’s first fatal shooting, which happened about 10: 40 p. m. Saturday in the 300 block of West 57th Street in the South Side Englewood neighborho­od. Someone shot Hines multiple times in the torso while he was driving, and his vehicle struck a fence, police and the medical examiner’s office said. Hines was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Last weekend, six men were killed and at least 35 other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago.

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