Posted on 02/23/2017 4:34:59 AM PST by simpson96
Six people were killed and six others were wounded in shootings across Chicago on Wednesday, police said.
A 20-year-old man and a pregnant woman in her 20s were shot in Chatham at about 8:15 p.m., police said.
Officers got to the 7600 block of South Champlain Avenue to find the woman on the sidewalk with gunshot wounds to the abdomen and side. The man was found in the driver's seat of a parked car with a gunshot wound to his neck. Both were taken to Stroger Hospital and pronounced dead, police said. (snip)
Later, at 8:50 p.m., a 24-year-old man was killed in the Brainerd neighborhood. He was on the sidewalk in the 9100 block of South Emerald Avenue when someone in a dark-colored sedan opened fire and he was shot in the head and back. He went to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
About 8:35 p.m., a 31-year-old man was shot in the head and back in the 11400 block of South Ada Street in the West Pullman neighborhood, police said in a media notification. (snip)
A 45-year-old man was fatally shot in the 900 block of East 133rd Street in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood about 7:05 p.m., police said. The man suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead on the scene, (snip) Tuesday night, Michael J. Lawrence-Harrington, 27, was shot to death in the 800 block of East 132nd Street, at the north end of Carver Park.
An earlier fatal shooting was discovered shortly before 7:30 a.m. in the Little Village neighborhood. Police said a relative found Jose Correa, 60, unresponsive on the floor of a garage in the 2700 block of South Central Park Avenue, Chicago police said.
In other shootings:
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OK...happy to see Chicago is back on track. Let do more this year than last.....waiting for Barry to return.
On the golf course, with Rahm.
They don't give a flip about the people of Chicago!
I assume the unborn baby died as well, so isn’t that seven dead?
Playing B Ball with his new crew to improve his CRED
Where is bh0? Hiding behind is walled rental property and guarded by the Secret Service in a upscale Washington DC neighborhood.
We need to pull out of Chicago.
That makes seven dead, not six.
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