8 KILLED SINCE FRIDAY EVENING
Eight people have been fatally shot and at least 17 others wounded in Chicago since 5 p.m. Friday, including three men caught Sunday in gunfire in East Garfield Park.
Shots rang out about 3:40 p.m. Sunday and struck three men in the 400 block of North Springfield Avenue, Chicago police said. A 37-year-old man was shot in the head and died.
A 34-year-old man was struck in the buttocks, and a third man, age 32, was shot in his right leg, police said. Their injuries were not life-threatening.
Earlier Sunday, a woman and man were fatally shot inside a parked vehicle in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
Just before 2 a.m., officers found 19-year-old Keshonda Monique Maxey and a 26-year-old man shot in the 100 block of North Lockwood Avenue, according to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Maxey was pronounced dead at the scene, and the man died at Stroger Hospital, authorities said.
Hours earlier on Saturday, a man was shot dead as he was driving in the Gage Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Juan Cruz, 21, was driving east about 10:40 p.m. in the 2700 block of West 58th Street when gunfire hit his vehicle and he crashed into a parked vehicle, authorities said.
Cruz, who lived in the neighborhood, was shot in his left shoulder and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, authorities said. He was pronounced dead less than an hour later.
Earlier Saturday, a man was killed in East Garfield Park. It was the second homicide within 24 hours to strike the same block.
Leetemi Daniels, 41, was shot multiple times just after 2:30 p.m. in the 3100 block of West Washington Boulevard, authorities said. He died at the scene.
Less than a day earlier, on Friday, 34-year-old Rodney Jernigan was fatally shot about 6:45 p.m. as he walked down a sidewalk in the same block Friday, authorities said.
Before dawn Saturday, a fatal double shooting struck the Albany Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side. Two men were sitting in a vehicle parked in an alley about 5:20 a.m. in the 4400 block of North Bernard Street when someone approached on foot and opened fire, police said.
Roberto Ramirez, 23, was shot in his head and was pronounced dead at the scene. Ramirez lived a block away from where he was shot. The other man, 22, was shot in the face and was in critical condition, police said.
Late Friday, a man was shot and killed in the East Side neighborhood. Jesus Gomez, 39, was standing among a group of people about 9:25 p.m. in the 3600 block of East 99th Street when two males inside a passing vehicle fired shots, authorities said. Gomez, who was from the South Chicago neighborhood, suffered a gunshot wound to the back and died at University of Chicago Medical Center, authorities said.