Six dead, at least six wounded in Chicago shootings
CHICAGO — Six people, including a 2-year-old boy and his uncle, were killed and at least six other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago during an 18-hour period from Tuesday morning to Wednesday.
The man, the 2-year-old boy and a 20-year-old woman were shot about 1:30 p.m. in an alley between the 2300 blocks of South Kenneth Avenue and South Kostner Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood.
In the most recent homicide, a 25-year-old man was shot to death about 3:45 a.m. Wednesday while he was driving on Lake Shore Drive, police said.
The man, who was driving a silver Lexus, was heading south in the 2300 block of North Lake Shore Drive near Fullerton Avenue when another car pulled up next to him and opened fire, striking him multiple times. The 25-year-old crashed into the center median. He was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Two other people who were in Lexus were not injured.
Early Wednesday, police blocked off the southbound lanes from Belmont Avenue to Chicago Avenue as officers used flashlights to search for evidence on the road. Multiple police cars and an ambulance surrounded a silver sedan, which was stopped on the left shoulder. The stretch of Lake Shore Drive where the shooting took place is sandwiched by the popular North Avenue Beach and Lincoln Park Zoo.
Earlier Tuesday and minutes after the triple shooting, police were sent to the 3400 block of West Walnut Street and North Homan Avenue, where one man was fatally shot. The 62-year-old man suffered multiple gunshot wounds about 2:40 p.m. and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
About 11:55 a.m., a 23-yearold man was fatally shot in the 2000 block of East 71st Street in the South Shore neighborhood, according to police. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the chest and later pronounced dead.
The man went into a store on 71st Street and was followed inside by another person, who fired shots at the man, killing him, said Officer Thomas Sweeney, a police spokesman.