Five people were injured, one seriously, in a shooting Monday afternoon in the Bronzeville neighborhood, authorities said.
Police officers responded to a call of a person shot at the 700 block of East 43rd Street just before 3:30 p.m. and found five victims had been struck by gunfire, Chicago police said. A woman in her 60s was shot in the right leg and transported to UChicago Medicine in serious condition, according to a preliminary police notification.
Four others were injured in the shooting, including a 35-year-old man who was shot in the arm, a 39-year-old man who was shot in the arm, a 44-year-old man who was shot in the foot and a 72-year-old woman who was shot in the shoulder, police said. The four victims were transported to UChicago Medicine, where they were listed in good condition, police said.
Charles Nelson had just gotten out the door on his way to a concert in Millennium Park Monday afternoon when gunfire exploded up his South Side block.
Nelson, 71, got down to the ground and waited through what he estimated was a full minute of shooting. When he got up again, almost 40 shell casings lay in the street and five people had been wounded. Nelson, wearing a shirt that read “Bronzeville: The Musical,” said he and his neighbors had been complaining to local leaders about shooting and other hazards between Langley and Cottage Grove avenues for years.
No one was in custody and no other offender information was immediately available as of Monday afternoon, as Wentworth area detectives investigated, police said.
The shooting comes after thirteen people were shot, two fatally, on the West Side in what appeared to be separate incidents early Sunday morning. The fatalities included an 18-year-old, identified by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as Kaleb Williams, and a 22-year-old woman whose identity had not been released as of mid-afternoon Monday.
The Tribune’s Caroline Kubzansky contributed.
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