CHICAGO — At least nine people have been wounded in shootings on the South Side since Saturday afternoon.
The most recent shooting occurred around 4:50 a.m. Sunday when a 24-year-old man was shot in the stomach while standing in the 8900 block of South Oglesby Avenue in Calumet Heights. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in serious condition, said Officer Janel Sedevic, a police spokeswoman.
About forty minutes earlier, a 17-year-old was shot while standing on the sidewalk in the 1200 block of North Keeler Avenue in Humboldt Park, police said. He was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center in stable condition after being shot in his leg.
At 3:40 a.m. in the 6500 block of South Maryland Avenue in Woodlawn, a 19-year-old man was shot in his leg. He was taken to Stroger Hospital in stable condition, said Officer Amina Greer, a police spokeswoman.
Around 1 a.m. Sunday in the 6300 block of South Ashland Avenue in West Englewood, a 20-year-old man was walking down the street when a man exited a light-colored vehicle and opened fire, striking the victim in the leg. He was taken to Holy Cross Hospital in good condition, said Greer.
A 28-year-old man was shot in the knee while standing in the 7100 block of South Morgan Street in Englewood about 12:30 a.m. Two men wearing hoodies approached the man as he was walking and opened fire. He was taken to Stroger Hospital in stable condition, Greer said.
Around 12:15 a.m. Sunday, another 28-year-old man was shot during a drive-by in the 5500 block of South Carpenter Street in Englewood. He was taken to Stroger in stable condition after being shot in his leg, said Greer.
A fight at a barbecue in the 500 block of East 42nd Street led to a man being shot in the leg about 9:30 Saturday night. Police said two men, including the 41-year-old victim, shot at a woman who had been fighting at the event. Police did not know who shot the man; the woman was not injured in the shooting. The man walked to Provident Hospital, police said.
A 44-year-old man was also arrested on the scene. Both men are in custody for the shooting, Greer said.
On Saturday afternoon at about 3:10 p.m., a 23-year-old man was shot by an unknown man while walking down the street in the 5700 block of South Shields Avenue in Englewood. The man was treated on the scene for a gunshot wound to the buttocks, but refused to be transported to a hospital, Greer said.
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