Wentworth Gardens: 3 shot, Chicago police say

Officers responded to calls of shots fired about 5:40 a.m. Monday in the 3800 block of South Wentworth Avenue.

By Sun-Times Wire

Two people were shot, one fatally, July 24, 2021, in Gage Park. — Three males were shot June 23, 2021, in the 3800 block of South Wentworth Avenue.

A Milwaukee man was killed and two others were seriously wounded in a shooting Wednesday morning in Wentworth Gardens on the South Side, according to police.

The three men were outside when someone fired shots about 5:40 a.m. in the 3800 block of South Wentworth Avenue, Chicago police said in a statement.

Christonie Sterling Zier Stephens, 24, was shot several times and died at the University of Chicago Medical Center, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Another man, 22, was shot twice in his chest and taken to the same hospital, where he was listed in critical condition, police said.

A third man, 25, was in serious condition at the University of Chicago Medical Center with gunshot wounds to his neck and back and a graze wound to the forehead.

No arrest was made, police said.

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