24 hours in Chicago: 2 killed, 19 wounded in shootings, including 12-year-old boy, 2 women outside Mount Sinai
Two men were killed and at least 19 people wounded in shootings in Chicago on Saturday and early Sunday, including a 12-year-old boy. Two women were shot outside Mount Sinai Hospital while waiting for news on a relative who was shot earlier in the day.
The boy was critically injured and a 23-year-old man was wounded when a male shooter fired into a crowd around 9:20 p.m. Saturday in the West Side’s East Garfield Park neighborhood, police said.
They were on a sidewalk in an apartment complex in the 3300 block of West Madison Street when the shooter fired a gun after arguing with a female.
The boy was taken to Stroger in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, and the man was stabilized at the same hospital with a wound in the arm.
Another two people were shot at the same apartment complex several hours later, according to police.
In that shooting, the men, 22 and 24, were coming out of a building in the complex on Madison when they heard gunfire and felt pain around 2 a.m. Sunday.
The 24-year-old was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition with wounds to the chest and pelvis. The 22-year-old was shot in the buttocks and stabilized at Mount Sinai Hospital.
The later shooting happened across the street from the earlier shooting in the Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza apartments.
Earlier, two 35-year-old women were shot around 8 p.m. Saturday during a drive-by outside Mount Sinai Hospital in the 2700 block of West Ogden Avenue on the West Side.
The assailants were inside a dark-colored car that pulled up and began firing — hitting both women in the lower body area, police said.
Their conditions at Mount Sinai were not known immediately.
At least two other gunshot victims, including a 25-year-old man shot and critically wounded in the 3700 block of West Roosevelt Road, were taken to Mount Sinai earlier Saturday.
That man’s aunt, Amanda Morris, 47, was among the crowd of people who relocated to the hospital’s main entrance after the women were shot.
She and about 20 other family members were waiting outside the hospital for several hours because her nephew was shot earlier in the day at the Roosevelt Road address, she said.
The hospital would not let her group inside, so the people stood on the sidewalk along Ogden Avenue, Morris said.
While the nephew was undergoing surgery, a car pulled up and began shooting into the group, she said.
“Nothing but gunfire,” she said. “No words or nothing. They just pulled up and started shooting.”
One of the women who was shot is the sister of the man who was taken there after the earlier shooting, Morris said.
“We are still standing outside the hospital waiting to find out what’s going on with our families and loved ones,” Morris said. “What kind of city do we live in?”
Earl Wilson, 56, said he was walking toward the hospital to pick up his cousin when he heard about 15 gunshots.
He was standing outside the hospital’s main entrance, which appeared to be on lockdown, with about 30 other people.
“They are not letting anyone inside,” he said.
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Originally Posted by AuH20
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