4 wounded — one fatally — in Englewood drive-by shooting

A group of people standing on a sidewalk in the 7000 block of South Halsted Street were fired upon by someone in a vehicle.

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Chicago police work the scene where four people were shot near the intersection of West 71st Street and South Halsted St. in the Englewood neighborhood, Tuesday, May 30, 2023.

Chicago police work the scene where four people were shot near the intersection of West 71st Street and South Halsted St. in the Englewood neighborhood, Tuesday, May 30, 2023.

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Four people were wounded, one fatally, in a shooting Tuesday night in Englewood.

The group was standing on a sidewalk in the 7000 block of South Halsted Street when someone in a gray Dodge Durango began shooting at them, Chicago police said.

Melvin Bolden, 37, was shot in the head and taken to University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition, police said. He died three days later, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

A 34-year-old man was shot twice in the buttock and once in the abdomen, police said. He was taken to the same hospital, where he was also listed in critical condition.

Another man, 43, was shot twice in the left leg and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was listed in good condition, police said.

A woman, whose age was unknown, was grazed in the arm, but she left the scene, police said.

No one was in custody.

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Chicago police work the scene where four people were shot near the intersection of West 71st Street and South Halsted St. in the Englewood neighborhood, Tuesday, May 30, 2023.

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times

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