At least one man was killed and five others were wounded in citywide shootings on Saturday.
The man was shot dead during a brawl in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
Terry Green, 25, was fighting with several others at 2:57 a.m. Saturday on a street in the first block of South Lavergne, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
A male in a silver SUV fired gunshots at the fighting crowd and struck Green in the neck, authorities said. Green, who lived in Maywood, later died at Stroger Hospital. No one is in custody.
Police investigate the scene where a 25-year-old man was shot and killed during a street brawl, Saturday morning, in the first block of South Lavergne, in the Austin neighborhood. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times
In nonfatal shootings, a 19-year-old woman was wounded at night on the Lower West Side. She was in a vehicle at 7:50 p.m. in the 2400 block of South Western Avenue when she heard gunfire and realized she was shot, police said. The woman took herself to Stroger Hospital, where she was treated for a gunshot wound her her hip.
At 6:45 p.m., a 17-year-old boy was wounded in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood. He told investigators he was walking in the 4700 block of West Fullerton Avenue when someone pulled up in a vehicle and fired shots, police said. The boy was struck in the arm and side of his body, police said. He was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center in serious condition.
In the morning, a man was shot in his hand in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side. At 9:32 a.m., the man, 38, was wounded in the 900 block of West Garfield Boulevard after getting into an argument with the shooter, police said. He was treated at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Earlier, two people in ski masks shot a man in his chest in West Garfield Park. The man, 28, was shot in the 4500 block of West Wilcox Street, and taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said. The masked males drove off in a silver-colored SUV.
About 1:50 a.m., a man was shot while driving in the Washington Heights neighborhood on the Far South Side. The 28-year-old was hit in the left arm as he drove a red sedan in the 10600 block of South Throop, according to police. The gunfire came from someone driving next to him in a dark sedan. The 28-year-old was treated at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
On Friday, at least three people were shot in Chicago.
