Crime News Chicago

Boy struck by SUV; man killed in Lawndale shooting | June 5, 2018

By Alice Bazerghi

Chicago police investigate two people who were shot Tuesday morning in the 1000 block of North Spaulding. | Tyler Lariviere/Sun-Times

Welcome to our morning article rounding up crime (and more) happenings from around the Chicago area overnight.

An 11-year-old boy was shot to death and 11 others were wounded Monday in gun violence across the city.
At 8:31 p.m. a 12-year-old boy was struck by an SUV in Englewood. He was taken to St. Bernard Hospital, where his condition stabilized, police said.

Police investigate the shooting of a man and a boy early Tuesday in the Humboldt Park neighborhood | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

A few minutes after midnight a 15-year-old boy and an 18-year-old man were shot in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side. The boy was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said.
At 2:07 a.m., a 32-year-old man was wounded in a shooting in Wentworth Gardens.

Soon after, at around 2:50 a.m., one man was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting in the Lawndale neighborhood.

Police investigate a shooting that left one man dead and two others wounded early Tuesday in the 4000 block of West 5th Avenue | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

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