A violent weekend left Chicago with nine homicides, including a stabbing on a CTA bus, a beating and scores of shootings from Rogers Park to West Pullman, officials said.
The fatal attacks, five of which happened Sunday, were mostly shootings that occurred between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Monday, and took place citywide from the Far North Rogers Park neighborhood to West Pullman on the Far South Side. Victims ranged in age from 17 to 63.
Minutes before rapper Lil Durk’s concert began at United Center about 7 p.m. Sunday, someone shot a group of teens nearby in the 100 block of North Wolcott Avenue. An 18-year-old was killed, a 19-year-old man was critically wounded, and a 15-year-old boy was left in good condition, official said.
The 18-year-old, who was shot in the chest and has not been identified, was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital, where the other two were recovering, police said.
Two hours later, a 17-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, both Venezuelan nationals, were walking outside in the 5600 block of South Maplewood Avenue in Gage Park just before 9 p.m. Sunday when two gunmen, wearing all black and armed with a rifle and a handgun, jumped from a gangway fired shots, according to a police report.
The unidentified 17-year-old was shot multiple times and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The girl was grazed in her head and shot in her leg and right hand, police said.
In Rogers Park Sunday, about 8:30 p.m., a 27-year-old man was standing outside the CTA’s Morse Red Line station when someone inside a passing black SUV fatally shot him. When officers got there, the victim was inside the station, and paramedics were trying to save his life but the unidentified man was taken to Presence St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where he was pronounced dead.
In the most recent homicide, a argument sparked an exchange of gunfire early Monday that left a 63-year-old man dead on the scene and a 58-year-old woman wounded in Auburn Gresham. About 2 a.m. in the 1800 block of West 83rd Street the armed 63-year-old man was involved in an argument that led to an exchange of gunfire with another gunman, police said.
The woman was taken in fair condition to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Charges were pending for the gunman who survived.
At 2 a.m. Sunday in West Pullman, officers found Adam Montjoy, 36, in the 12000 block of South Halsted Street with a gunshot wound in his chest, Chicago police said. Mountjoy was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was pronounced dead.
A man was found shot to death Saturday night in the Oakland neighborhood on the South Side. About 8:40 p.m., officers found 32-year-old Chevelle Carter in the 3800 block of South Ellis Avenue with multiple gunshot wounds to his chest, Chicago police said. Carter, of Calumet Park, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Early Sunday, about 4 a.m. in the South Chicago neighborhood, an unidentified 23-year-old man was found outside with multiple gunshot wounds in the 8500 block of South Saginaw Avenue. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
An unidentified 44-year-old man was found along railroad tracks in the 2200 block of West 47th Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood about 10:20 p.m. Saturday. Police said he’d been fighting with several people who chased him down the tracks and beat him. He was pronounced dead at the scene and a motive was not known.
On Friday night, about 8 p.m. a woman allegedly pulled a knife aboard a CTA bus in Austin and fatally stabbed an unidentified 49-year-old man. She was not in custody. and the victim was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital.
About a dozen more people survived weekend shooting attacks.