Two teens were among nine people killed by gun violence in Chicago over the weekend, and 22 other people were wounded.
- A 13-year-old boy was fatally shot Friday night in West Ridge on the Northwest Side. Lavell Winslow was hanging out at Lerner Park with friends when a gunshot rang out just before 10 p.m., Chicago police and his family told the Sun-Times. A bystander at the scene, near the 7000 block of North Sacramento Avenue, told investigators he heard a loud pop and saw a group of people running away. He then found Lavell on a bench with a gunshot wound to his head and called for help. Lavell was rushed to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead.
- Just after midnight Saturday, a person found a 17-year-old boy shot after hearing gunshots in the 700 block of West 50th Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, police said. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. No one was in custody.
- A woman was found shot to death Saturday morning in Auburn Gresham on the South Side. Joslyn Shaw, 39, was found on a sidewalk about 10:50 a.m. in the 8400 block of South Vincennes Avenue, police and the medical examiner’s office said. She was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she died.
- Saturday evening, a 31-year-old man was shot to death inside a North Lawndale apartment on the West Side, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He was inside a residence in the 1900 block of South Homan Avenue when someone entered the apartment and shot him about 5:15 p.m. He was struck in the chest and back and pronounced dead at the scene. No arrests were reported.
- Two people were shot, one fatally, Saturday night in South Chicago on the South Side. A man and woman, 27 and 25, were shot about 11:05 p.m. in a hallway in the 8700 block of South Burley Avenue, police said. The man was shot in the back and pronounced dead at the scene, police said. His name hasn’t been released yet. The woman was taken to the University of Chicago with a gunshot wound to the left leg, police said. She was listed in fair condition.
- A man was shot and killed early Sunday after a fight at a hotel lounge in Old Town on the North Side. Allen Cordayl, 35, was involved in a fight about 1:20 a.m. at the lounge in the 1800 block of North Clark Street and was shot in the chest, police said. He was taken to the Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he died, police said.
- A man was found fatally shot early Monday after crashing his car into a tree in Chicago Lawn on the South Side. The man, 53, was found with a gunshot wound to the chest about 1:45 a.m. in the 6800 block of South Western Avenue, Chicago police said. He was taken to Holy Cross Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. His name hasn’t been released yet.
- About an hour earlier, a 43-year-old man was found inside a car with a gunshot wound to the head about in the 1500 block of East 62nd Street, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
- A 20-year-old man was killed in Englewood on Sunday afternoon, police said. The man was struck in the lower back in the 6900 block of South Peoria Avenue about 4:10 p.m. and taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, according to Chicago police.
- A 60-year-old man was shot during a fight on a Red Line train on the South Side. He was arguing with someone about 6:10 a.m. Saturday near the 87th Street station and was shot multiple times, police said. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition, police said. No one was in custody.
- A 16-year-old boy was shot in the leg in Garfield Park Sunday evening. He was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition.
- Friday night, a man was shot after he allegedly stabbed a woman in East Garfield Park on the West Side. About 8:20 p.m., a 33-year-old woman was trying to enter a residential building in the 700 block of North Spaulding Avenue when a man approached and stabbed her in the hand and thigh, police said. Another woman, 54, arrived and shot the man multiple times. The man, 62, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition. The younger woman was taken to the same hospital in good condition.
At least 17 other people were wounded by gunfire from 5 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday in Chicago.
