[Chicago Tribune] Shootings left three men dead and at least 15 others maimed from early Saturday afternoon to early morning Sunday, according to authorities.In the most recent shooting, at 4:35 a.m. Sunday morning, a man was killed and three women shot near the intersections of Springfield and Wilcox avenues in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.
The man, 24, was dead on arrival at Mount Sinai Hospital after suffering a shot to the chest, police said. One of the women, 21, was in serious-to-critical condition at Mt. Sinai after being shot in the chest and back. Another woman, 23, had her condition stabilized at Mount Sinai after being shot in both feet, and the third woman, 20, suffered a graze wound and refused transport to a hospital.
Additional details about the circumstances surrounding that shooting weren't immediately available.
In the first shooting death of the night, two men were shot, one fatally, about 11:30 p.m. Saturday in the 0-100 block of South Parkside Avenue in the South Austin neighborhood on the West Side, less than a block from the Austin District cop shoppe.
The dead man, identified as 18-year-old Daquan Boyd by family members, fell in an alley trying to escape after being shot. He died there. The other man, also 18, was shot in the side and taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County.
The pair were outside of an apartment on Parkside when two young men on bikes drove up and opened fire before fleeing on their bikes. The attack happened about 11:30 p.m., reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
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Police Department News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines said.
About 11:50 p.m. Saturday, a 19-year-old man was shot to death in the 800 block of South Lawndale Avenue in the Homan Square neighborhood. The man suffered a head wound and was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital.
He was identified as Antione Green of the 3100 block of West Douglas Boulevard by the Cook County medical examiner's office.
The man was leaving a park in the area when his friends heard a shot and saw him fall off his bike, police said. Police were coordinating with other city agencies to look for a weapon that may have been dropped in a sewer in that area.