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Jun 1, 2010 1:17 pm US/Central
6 Killed, Dozens Wounded Over Holiday Weekend
Violence Reported In All Areas Of CityCHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) ―
Three women were shot in the 100 block of West 113th Place in Roseland over the holiday weekend, in one of dozens of shootings that left six people dead and at least three dozen wounded.
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Six people were killed and at least three dozen wounded in acts of violence -- mainly shootings -- throughout the city of Chicago over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
Friday Night:
A man standing on the sidewalk at 8101 S. Throop St. about 10:20 p.m. was wounded when two men approached on a red motor scooter and one fired multiple shots from a handgun, police said. The man was taken in fair but stable condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn with a gunshot wound to the hip.
A 26-year-old man was shot and seriously wounded at a gas station in the 400 block of South Kostner Avenue on the West Side. A male approached, exchanged words and shot the man about 10:30 p.m. Friday, police said. The victim was taken in serious condition to Mount Sinai Hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
Saturday:
The owner of a South Side liquor store at 737 W. 51st St. was shot in a robbery at 8:38 a.m., police said. Shamson Food & Liquor is listed at that address. The victim, 52, was working when someone entered, took items from the shelf and walked toward the exit, police said.
When the man came out from behind the counter, the suspect pulled out a firearm and fired a shot into the ceiling. A second person then came into the store and demanded money, and one of the suspects shot the victim in the leg. He was taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition.
About 3 p.m. Saturday, a 56-year-old man standing on a corner in the 6200 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue was shot in the leg and taken to Stroger Hospital, police said.
About 6:45 p.m. Saturday, two men were shot in the 8400 block of South Muskegon Avenue, police said. An 18-year-old man suffered a graze wound to the hip and was treated at the scene after refusing to be hospitalized and a 19-year-old man was shot in the arm.
Each gave differing accounts of the shooting and refused to cooperate with police.
At 7:28 p.m., a 17-year-old boy was shot while standing on the sidewalk in the 7400 block of South Evans, police said. He was taken to Christ Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the upper right thigh.
At 7:49 p.m., a man in his late teens or early 20s was shot in the leg in the 3900 block of West 79th Street, police said. The shooting happened outside Bogan High School.
About 10 minutes later, someone in a green minivan shot a 19-year-old man in the 7900 block of South Springfield Avenue. The alleged gang member was treated and released at Christ Medical Center.
About 10:30 p.m., a man was shot in the right arm while standing on the street in the 2900 block of North Milwaukee Avenue. He was taken to Norwegian-American Hospital in "stable" condition.
Sunday:
About 12:15 a.m. a brother and sister were shot in the 3900 block of West Gladys, police said. They were walking home from the store when two men approached and accused one of the victims of witnessing something at a previous date. The two ran and at least one of the men opened fire, striking both siblings, police said.
The 24-year-old man was shot in the cheek and the 19-year-old woman suffered a graze wound to the neck. Both were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in "stable" condition, police said.
About 12:30 a.m., a 28-year-old man was shot in the right calf in the 10500 block of South Corliss and taken to Roseland Community Hospital in "stable" condition, police said.
About 12:30 a.m. on the 5100 block of South Laflin Street, 19-year-old Darius Murphy was fatally shot in the head. Murphy, of the 5300 block of South Bishop Street, was pronounced dead at 1:10 a.m. at Stroger Hospital, according to the medical examiner's office.
About 12:45 a.m. a 16-year-old boy was shot in the 1500 block of East 67th Street, police said. He was taken in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a gunshot wound to the arm.
At 12:50 a.m., three men on a porch were shot in the 9200 block of South Blackstone A 25-year-old man was in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the neck and chest; an 18-year-old man was in stable condition at Advocate Trinity Hospital with a gunshot wound to the left leg; and a 27-year-old man was treated and released from Trinity with a gunshot wound to the right arm, police said.
Just after 1 a.m., 19-year-old Allen Olivia and a companion were walking near his home on the 3200 block of South Ashland Avenue when three males approached Olivia and hit him in the back of the head with a baseball bat, knocking him to the ground, police said.
Olivia was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 5:42 a.m. A doctor at Stroger Hospital determined he also sustained two stab wounds to his back. The male companion whom Olivia was with fled and was not present when police arrived. Detectives had to track him down through witnesses in order to get an account of the incident, police said.
About 2 a.m., two men were shot near Racine Avenue and 108th Street. Further details were not available.
About 2:30 a.m., a 23-year-old man was shot in the cheek while stopped at a light in the 1500 block of West North Avenue in Wicker Park. The gunman approached in a passing vehicle, shouted gang slogans and opened fire, police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition.
About 3:15 a.m., two men and two women were wounded during a shooting in the 9100 block of South Marshfield Avenue, police said.
At 12:36 p.m. Sunday, a man was shot in the hand in the 8000 block of South St. Lawrence, according to police.
At 1:17 p.m, on the Southwest Side, an 18-year-old was shot in the head in the 5400 block of South Kostner Avenue, police said. He was hospitalized in "stable" condition.
At 2:35 p.m., a 22-year-old man was walking down an alley in the 3400 block of West 30th Street when someone opened fire, shooting him multiple times in the face, police said.
About 9:25 p.m. on Sunday, Frankie Samudio, 18, was fatally shot by an assailant riding a bicycle at 2830 W. 46th St. in the Southwest Side's Brighton Park neighborhood, according to police.
About 11 p.m., Larry Marble, 27, was fatally shot in the chest near 61st and Bishop streets, police said. He was playing dice or a game of chance with another person when a disagreement began and he was shot several times.
At 11:30 p.m. on Sunday, a man was shot in the leg in the West Englewood neighborhood near the intersection of 72nd Street and Claremont Avenue.
Just 20 minutes later in the North Austin neighborhood, gunfire struck a man on the street and also went through a window and injured a woman in her home.
The shooting happened about 11:50 p.m in the 1600 block of North Laramie, police said. A man in his early 20s was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood while a woman in her late 30s was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said. Both were in stable condition.
Monday:
On the Far South Side, three women were shot in an incident sparked by apparent jealousy while walking down the 100 block of West 113th Place with male companions about 12:20 a.m. Monday.
The woman most seriously injured was shot in the chest and had to undergo surgery at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Another woman who was shot in the hip was also at Christ Hospital but her injuries were not life-threatening, police said. The third woman -- shot in both legs -- was taken to Roseland Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
A 20-year-old man was fatally shot in the 2600 block of South Ridgeway Avenue at 3:44 a.m. in the Little Village neighborhood, police said. An autopsy Monday found he had suffered multiple gunshot wounds.
At 5:24 a.m. in the 4500 block of North Broadway in Uptown, a gunman riding a bike shot an 18-year-old man who was walking on the street, police said. He was shot in the groin area and was hospitalized for non-life-threatening injuries. The shooting was gang-related, police said.
An armed security guard fatally shot a man who was fighting over his 6-year-old son with his girlfriend when the guard intervened and the man attempted to run him over with a car at a South Side housing complex, police said.
At about 8:15 a.m. near 65th Street and King Drive, the guard with Digby Security intervened in a domestic dispute over custody of the boy in the gated parking lot of a subsidized housing complex, police said.
The man was fleeing with the child in the Buick sedan when he drove toward the on-duty guard, attempting to run him over. The guard, a man in his 40s, fired multiple shots at the driver, who crashed the vehicle, Baety said.
Quintin Sharp, 25, of the 6300 block of South King Drive, was pronounced dead at 5:30 p.m. at Christ Medical Center, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. He suffered a gunshot wound to the head. The guard, the child and the woman were not hurt, Baety said.
The security guard claimed self-defense and witness accounts of the incident matched the description of the incident although police were not able to talk to the man before he died, police said.
About 10:50 a.m. on Monday, a 16-year-old boy suffered a gunshot wound to the thigh as he was taking out garbage on the South Side.
The shooting happened on the 6700 block of South Clyde Avenue, according to police News Affairs. The boy told police he was taking out the garbage when he heard shots and felt pain. He then realized he had suffered a single gunshot wound to the right thigh. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition.
When police responded to a call of a shooting Monday night on the Southwest Side, they found several people bound and one man critically shot in a home invasion. One suspect was being interviewed by police, who were also seeking two others.
Police responded to the 3500 block of West 76th Street at 5:57 p.m. and found multiple men bound. A man in his 20s was also found shot and taken to Christ Medical Center in critical condition. He was shot in the chest, side and buttock, police said.
Several people -- some of them related -- were found with their hands tied behind their backs, and police believe the motive was robbery.
A man and a woman were walking in an alley when both were shot on the Southwest Side Monday night. The shooting happened in the 5800 block of South Francisco Avenue at 10:13 p.m., police said.
A man in his 20s said he was "minding his business" while walking in an alley when he heard people shouting gang slogans and then fire multiple shots, police said. He was shot in the buttock but refused medical treatment.
At the same time, a woman in her 40s was walking in the alley when she suffered a graze wound to the back. She was taken to Holy Cross Hospital in good condition.
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2009. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
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Jun 1, 2010 1:17 pm US/Central
6 Killed, Dozens Wounded Over Holiday Weekend
Violence Reported In All Areas Of CityCHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) ―
Three women were shot in the 100 block of West 113th Place in Roseland over the holiday weekend, in one of dozens of shootings that left six people dead and at least three dozen wounded.
CBS
Close
Related StoriesAssailant Riding Bike Shoots Man In Uptown
(5/31/2010)
Apparent Jealousy Sparks Shooting Of 3 Women
(5/31/2010)
Teen Critical, Shot 5 Times Biking By Party
(5/30/2010)
Man Shot In Head on S. Side
(5/30/2010)
4 Shot In Car on S. Side
(5/30/2010)
Six people were killed and at least three dozen wounded in acts of violence -- mainly shootings -- throughout the city of Chicago over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
Friday Night:
A man standing on the sidewalk at 8101 S. Throop St. about 10:20 p.m. was wounded when two men approached on a red motor scooter and one fired multiple shots from a handgun, police said. The man was taken in fair but stable condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn with a gunshot wound to the hip.
A 26-year-old man was shot and seriously wounded at a gas station in the 400 block of South Kostner Avenue on the West Side. A male approached, exchanged words and shot the man about 10:30 p.m. Friday, police said. The victim was taken in serious condition to Mount Sinai Hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
Saturday:
The owner of a South Side liquor store at 737 W. 51st St. was shot in a robbery at 8:38 a.m., police said. Shamson Food & Liquor is listed at that address. The victim, 52, was working when someone entered, took items from the shelf and walked toward the exit, police said.
When the man came out from behind the counter, the suspect pulled out a firearm and fired a shot into the ceiling. A second person then came into the store and demanded money, and one of the suspects shot the victim in the leg. He was taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition.
About 3 p.m. Saturday, a 56-year-old man standing on a corner in the 6200 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue was shot in the leg and taken to Stroger Hospital, police said.
About 6:45 p.m. Saturday, two men were shot in the 8400 block of South Muskegon Avenue, police said. An 18-year-old man suffered a graze wound to the hip and was treated at the scene after refusing to be hospitalized and a 19-year-old man was shot in the arm.
Each gave differing accounts of the shooting and refused to cooperate with police.
At 7:28 p.m., a 17-year-old boy was shot while standing on the sidewalk in the 7400 block of South Evans, police said. He was taken to Christ Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the upper right thigh.
At 7:49 p.m., a man in his late teens or early 20s was shot in the leg in the 3900 block of West 79th Street, police said. The shooting happened outside Bogan High School.
About 10 minutes later, someone in a green minivan shot a 19-year-old man in the 7900 block of South Springfield Avenue. The alleged gang member was treated and released at Christ Medical Center.
About 10:30 p.m., a man was shot in the right arm while standing on the street in the 2900 block of North Milwaukee Avenue. He was taken to Norwegian-American Hospital in "stable" condition.
Sunday:
About 12:15 a.m. a brother and sister were shot in the 3900 block of West Gladys, police said. They were walking home from the store when two men approached and accused one of the victims of witnessing something at a previous date. The two ran and at least one of the men opened fire, striking both siblings, police said.
The 24-year-old man was shot in the cheek and the 19-year-old woman suffered a graze wound to the neck. Both were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in "stable" condition, police said.
About 12:30 a.m., a 28-year-old man was shot in the right calf in the 10500 block of South Corliss and taken to Roseland Community Hospital in "stable" condition, police said.
About 12:30 a.m. on the 5100 block of South Laflin Street, 19-year-old Darius Murphy was fatally shot in the head. Murphy, of the 5300 block of South Bishop Street, was pronounced dead at 1:10 a.m. at Stroger Hospital, according to the medical examiner's office.
About 12:45 a.m. a 16-year-old boy was shot in the 1500 block of East 67th Street, police said. He was taken in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a gunshot wound to the arm.
At 12:50 a.m., three men on a porch were shot in the 9200 block of South Blackstone A 25-year-old man was in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the neck and chest; an 18-year-old man was in stable condition at Advocate Trinity Hospital with a gunshot wound to the left leg; and a 27-year-old man was treated and released from Trinity with a gunshot wound to the right arm, police said.
Just after 1 a.m., 19-year-old Allen Olivia and a companion were walking near his home on the 3200 block of South Ashland Avenue when three males approached Olivia and hit him in the back of the head with a baseball bat, knocking him to the ground, police said.
Olivia was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 5:42 a.m. A doctor at Stroger Hospital determined he also sustained two stab wounds to his back. The male companion whom Olivia was with fled and was not present when police arrived. Detectives had to track him down through witnesses in order to get an account of the incident, police said.
About 2 a.m., two men were shot near Racine Avenue and 108th Street. Further details were not available.
About 2:30 a.m., a 23-year-old man was shot in the cheek while stopped at a light in the 1500 block of West North Avenue in Wicker Park. The gunman approached in a passing vehicle, shouted gang slogans and opened fire, police said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition.
About 3:15 a.m., two men and two women were wounded during a shooting in the 9100 block of South Marshfield Avenue, police said.
At 12:36 p.m. Sunday, a man was shot in the hand in the 8000 block of South St. Lawrence, according to police.
At 1:17 p.m, on the Southwest Side, an 18-year-old was shot in the head in the 5400 block of South Kostner Avenue, police said. He was hospitalized in "stable" condition.
At 2:35 p.m., a 22-year-old man was walking down an alley in the 3400 block of West 30th Street when someone opened fire, shooting him multiple times in the face, police said.
About 9:25 p.m. on Sunday, Frankie Samudio, 18, was fatally shot by an assailant riding a bicycle at 2830 W. 46th St. in the Southwest Side's Brighton Park neighborhood, according to police.
About 11 p.m., Larry Marble, 27, was fatally shot in the chest near 61st and Bishop streets, police said. He was playing dice or a game of chance with another person when a disagreement began and he was shot several times.
At 11:30 p.m. on Sunday, a man was shot in the leg in the West Englewood neighborhood near the intersection of 72nd Street and Claremont Avenue.
Just 20 minutes later in the North Austin neighborhood, gunfire struck a man on the street and also went through a window and injured a woman in her home.
The shooting happened about 11:50 p.m in the 1600 block of North Laramie, police said. A man in his early 20s was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood while a woman in her late 30s was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said. Both were in stable condition.
Monday:
On the Far South Side, three women were shot in an incident sparked by apparent jealousy while walking down the 100 block of West 113th Place with male companions about 12:20 a.m. Monday.
The woman most seriously injured was shot in the chest and had to undergo surgery at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Another woman who was shot in the hip was also at Christ Hospital but her injuries were not life-threatening, police said. The third woman -- shot in both legs -- was taken to Roseland Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
A 20-year-old man was fatally shot in the 2600 block of South Ridgeway Avenue at 3:44 a.m. in the Little Village neighborhood, police said. An autopsy Monday found he had suffered multiple gunshot wounds.
At 5:24 a.m. in the 4500 block of North Broadway in Uptown, a gunman riding a bike shot an 18-year-old man who was walking on the street, police said. He was shot in the groin area and was hospitalized for non-life-threatening injuries. The shooting was gang-related, police said.
An armed security guard fatally shot a man who was fighting over his 6-year-old son with his girlfriend when the guard intervened and the man attempted to run him over with a car at a South Side housing complex, police said.
At about 8:15 a.m. near 65th Street and King Drive, the guard with Digby Security intervened in a domestic dispute over custody of the boy in the gated parking lot of a subsidized housing complex, police said.
The man was fleeing with the child in the Buick sedan when he drove toward the on-duty guard, attempting to run him over. The guard, a man in his 40s, fired multiple shots at the driver, who crashed the vehicle, Baety said.
Quintin Sharp, 25, of the 6300 block of South King Drive, was pronounced dead at 5:30 p.m. at Christ Medical Center, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. He suffered a gunshot wound to the head. The guard, the child and the woman were not hurt, Baety said.
The security guard claimed self-defense and witness accounts of the incident matched the description of the incident although police were not able to talk to the man before he died, police said.
About 10:50 a.m. on Monday, a 16-year-old boy suffered a gunshot wound to the thigh as he was taking out garbage on the South Side.
The shooting happened on the 6700 block of South Clyde Avenue, according to police News Affairs. The boy told police he was taking out the garbage when he heard shots and felt pain. He then realized he had suffered a single gunshot wound to the right thigh. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition.
When police responded to a call of a shooting Monday night on the Southwest Side, they found several people bound and one man critically shot in a home invasion. One suspect was being interviewed by police, who were also seeking two others.
Police responded to the 3500 block of West 76th Street at 5:57 p.m. and found multiple men bound. A man in his 20s was also found shot and taken to Christ Medical Center in critical condition. He was shot in the chest, side and buttock, police said.
Several people -- some of them related -- were found with their hands tied behind their backs, and police believe the motive was robbery.
A man and a woman were walking in an alley when both were shot on the Southwest Side Monday night. The shooting happened in the 5800 block of South Francisco Avenue at 10:13 p.m., police said.
A man in his 20s said he was "minding his business" while walking in an alley when he heard people shouting gang slogans and then fire multiple shots, police said. He was shot in the buttock but refused medical treatment.
At the same time, a woman in her 40s was walking in the alley when she suffered a graze wound to the back. She was taken to Holy Cross Hospital in good condition.
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2009. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
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