Chicago Weekend Shootings: Multiple Teen Victims Among Dozens Injured, Says Alderman

CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago police say at least four people are dead and around 30 are hurt after shootings across the city this weekend.

Chicago’s West Side took the brunt of the violence.

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There were three separate shootings just blocks away from each other.

Some of the shootings took place during large gatherings, and at least seven of the shooting victims from the weekend are teens.

That is concerning for the community.

Early Sunday morning, Chicago police were called to the 4500-block of West Wilcox Avenue in the city’s South Austin neighborhood.

Four people were rushed to the hospital after shots were fired.

A 15- and 16-year-old boy were shot multiple times, a man was shot in the neck and head and another man was grazed in the leg.

Video from the scene shows trash on the street, after what appeared to be some kind of gathering.

Evidence markers were placed on the ground, as police searched the area.

Alderman Jason Ervin represents the 28th Ward, where some of the shootings happened.

“The one incident on Wilcox was a result of a robbery, where the individual, as I understand it, that was being robbed, took the gun away from the person robbing him and began shooting. And there was return fire, which resulted in four people being shot,” Ervin said.

There was another mas shooting Sunday around 3 a.m., along North La Crosse Avenue on the city’s West Side.

A 22-year-old woman was killed, and five others were shot during a large gathering.

Three of those victims are in critical condition, and two of them are teenagers.

Alderman Ervin says this was a party that was advertised on social media.

The location of the party was changed at the last minute, but it still drew over 1,000 people.

Many were under 21.

“We also, as community, must begin to hold each other accountable as to the activity of our children, as to, you know, what they’re doing after hours,” Ervin said.

Chicago police officers also responded overnight to West Maypole Avenue, where an 18-year-old was shot and killed during what police say was an argument in a vehicle.

Another 18-year-old was also shot, but is expected to be OK.

Alderman Ervin says there was one person arrested in the LaCrosse Avenue incident for damage to property.

But no arrests have been made connected to any of the shootings.

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