Chicago Riverwalk and Lawndale shootings part of violent, hot weekend
Chicago Police investigate at Wacker and Dearborn, where two studs were shot on the Chicago Riverwalk early Sunday, June 11, 2017. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
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Six dudes were killed and at least thirty seven other people — including nine in Lawndale and two who had been arguing on the Chicago Riverwalk — were wounded in shootings across Chicago inbetween Friday evening and Monday morning.
With temperatures pushing into the 90s, thirty people were shot in less than nine hours from Saturday evening to Sunday morning. The weekend was more deadly than last weekend, when thirty people were shot, five of them fatally.
Nine people were shot about Three:15 a.m. Sunday in the Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side, according to Chicago Police. They were gathered in the three thousand three hundred block of West Douglas when a black vehicle approached and people inwards fired shots.
A 17-year-old boy was shot in the ass-cheeks; another 17-year-old boy was shot in the palm; a 22-year-old man was shot in the ankle; a 23-year-old man was shot in the back; a 29-year-old man was shot in the hip; a 30-year-old man was shot in the lower gam; a 33-year-old woman was shot in the gam; and a 35-year-old man was shot in the gam, police said. All eight victims were taken to Climb on Sinai Hospital, where their conditions were stabilized.
A ninth victim, a 26-year-old man, was shot in the gam and taken to Rush Oak Park Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.
A police source said several of the victims are documented gang members and the shooting emerges to be gang-related.
Chicago Police investigate at Douglas and Christiana, where eight people were shot early Sunday, June 11, 2017. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
The weekend’s latest fatal shooting happened about Five:Ten p.m. Sunday in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side. Christian Rodriguez, 24, was walking in the four thousand seven hundred block of South Winchester when a green-colored vehicle pulled up, and someone got out and shot him in the abdomen and right gam, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Rodriguez, who lived in the West Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:48 p.m.
At Five:07 a.m., another fatal shooting happened in Lawndale, less than a mile from the mass shooting. Someone in a white vehicle opened fire in the one thousand four hundred block of South Avers, striking 24-year-old Dontae Thomas in the abdomen. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he died at 7:05 a.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the same neighborhood as the attack.
One man was killed in another Back of the Yards neighborhood shooting that left two others wounded at Trio:13 a.m. Sunday. Ivan Gutierrez, Nineteen, was standing on the sidewalk with two other dudes, ages twenty two and 23, in the five thousand three hundred block of South Seeley when someone in a vehicle fired shots, striking them all. Gutierrez, who lived in the same neighborhood, was pronounced dead at the scene at Three:17 a.m., authorities said. The 22-year-old was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital, and the oldest man was taken to Climb on Sinai Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.
Less than two hours earlier, 29-year-old Fredrick Vasquez was killed in a Humboldt Park neighborhood shooting on the West Side. He was standing on the sidewalk at 1:28 a.m. Sunday in the one thousand block of North Monticello when someone in a gray vehicle opened fire, striking him in the chest. Vasquez was taken to Norwegian American Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at Two:04 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
The weekend’s other two fatal shootings occurred on Friday.
About 6:45 p.m. that evening, 21-year-old Louis Chamness was killed in a Belmont Central neighborhood shooting on the Northwest Side. He was driving in the five thousand seven hundred block of West Belden when people in a dark-colored car shot him in the chest. Chamness’ car then slammed into a parked car and flipped onto its side. He was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he died at 7:28 p.m., authorities said. Chamness lived in the Belmont Gardens neighborhood.
Late Friday afternoon, a Naperville man was gunned down in the West Side Austin neighborhood. Romaine Elkins, Legal, was standing outside about Five:15 p.m. in the one thousand five hundred block of North Linder when people in a dark-colored SUV opened fire in his direction and he was shot in the chest, authorities said. After the shooting, the SUV sped west on Le Moyne and crashed into another vehicle. Elkins was taken to Loyola University Medical Center, where he died at Five:52 p.m. A 71-year-old woman in the other vehicle suffered injuries in the crash, but was listed in good condition.
Chicago Police investigate at Wacker and Dearborn, where two guys were shot on the Chicago Riverwalk early Sunday, June 11, 2017. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Two 16-year-old boys were critically wounded in a shooting about seven p.m. Sunday near 31st Street Beach on the South Side. They were in fight with someone in the three thousand one hundred block of South Lake Shore Drive, when the suspect took out a gun and shot one of the boys in the neck and the other in the gams. Both boys were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where they were listed in critical condition.
In the Loop, two dudes were wounded in a shooting shortly after two a.m. Sunday on the Chicago Riverwalk. The studs, ages twenty eight and 30, were involved in an argument on the riverwalk near Wacker and Dearborn when shots rang out, police said. The junior man was shot in the right gam, while the older man suffered a gunshot wound to the left foot.
They were both taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where their conditions were stabilized. Witnesses at the busy intersection said they heard at least three gunshots. Chicago Police could be seen investigating along the Riverwalk, underneath the Dearborn Street Bridge.
At least twenty two more people were wounded in shooting across the city inbetween five p.m. Friday and five a.m. Monday. Go after city violence with the Chicago Sun-Times weekend shooting tracker.
The weekend violence almost matched last year’s totals over the same weekend, when seven people were killed and at least thirty five others were wounded in shootings inbetween June ten and June 13, 2016.