Five people were shot early Monday morning in the second mass shooting to occur in the Bronzeville area during the Labor Day holiday weekend.
Chicago police officers were near the scene shortly after 1 a.m. when they heard gunfire. When they arrived at the 3600 block of South Cottage Grove, they found five people wounded, according to police.
The shooting left a 17-year-old boy in critical condition at University of Chicago Medical Center with multiple gunshot wounds to the body, according to police.
The victims also include a 33-year-old man shot in the arm and reported to be in fair condition, as well as a 36-year-old woman shot in the leg, a 33-year-old man shot in the leg and arm and a 26-year-old man shot in the leg in good condition.
Police were responding to a call of a “large disturbance” nearby when the shooting occurred and recovered four guns at the scene. Detectives are questioning a person of interest, according to the Police Department.
The shooting occurred a day after an unknown gunman drove by and opened fire on a crowd standing outside on the 3500 block of South State Street. Seven people were shot in the late Saturday night attack, and all seven were in good condition after the shooting, according to police.
Two Chicagoans were fatally wounded in separate shootings Sunday evening, according to police.
A 26-year-old woman was in front of an Altgeld Gardens home around 7:30 p.m. when a gunman described by police as a “known offender” shot her in the chest and killed her. Around an hour later, police found a man shot to death with multiple wounds to the body in Little Village.
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