Monday, June 29, 2020

Chicago weekend shootings: 61 shot, 15 fatally, in violence across city

According to Chicago police, 61 people were shot and 15 were killed between 6 p.m. Friday and 11:59 p.m. Sunday.

A 38-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday morning in Little Village on the Southwest Side, Chicago police said.

Police say the shooting occurred in the 8200 block of S. Escanaba just after 7:15 a.m., before the victim relocated to where police responded.

According to police, just before 7:00 a.m. the victim was walking in the 1400-block of W. Lunt Avenue when an unknown male offender approached him and fired one gunshot to the back of the victim's head. The suspect then ran to a black SUV and fled westbound on Lunt Avenue towards Clark Street, police said.

About 8:30 a.m. he was jogging in the 7500 block of South Harvard Avenue, when he heard shots and felt a pain, Chicago police said.

According to police, around 4:26 a.m. the three people were outside among a group in the 500-block of North Menard Avenue when an unknown occupant inside of a passing vehicle fired shots, striking them each.

A few minutes earlier, Chicago police officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert Sunday morning around 3:54 a.m. in the 1300-block of N. Mayfield Avenue and discovered a 28-year-old man lying unresponsive on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds to the back and face, police said.

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