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Three Shot in Logan Square Among 15 Wounded

By Mina Bloom | October 5, 2014 11:28am | Updated on October 5, 2014 7:44pm
 Three 14-year-old boys were wounded in separate shootings.
Three 14-year-old boys were wounded in separate shootings.
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CHICAGO — Since Saturday night, at least 15 people, including three 14-year-old boys, were injured in citywide shootings.

In the most recent shooting, two males were shot in East Garfield Park about 6:30 p.m., police said. One was shot in the left leg and the other in the leg and buttocks. Both were in "stable" condition at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Police did not know the ages of the victims.

A 14-year-old boy was shot in the leg about 2:15 p.m. Saturday afternoon in the 4300 block of West 16th Street, police said.

The boy was in good condition at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was being uncooperative with police. The shooting is possibly gang related, police said.

About an hour earlier, another 14-year-old boy was shot in in Woodlawn, in the 6100 block of South Vernon Avenue, police said. The boy was shot in the chest and taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in serious condition.

Earlier, three people were shot around 10:15 a.m. in South Deering.

Someone in a white SUV shot two people in the 9500 block of South Jeffery Avenue and then drove to the 2000 block of East 95th Street and shot a 15-year-old boy within a matter of minutes, according to Officer Ana Pacheco, a Chicago police spokeswoman.

A boy, 17, and a man, 18, were traveling in a car going southbound down Jeffery Avenue when the white SUV pulled up and someone inside the car opened fire, striking the 17-year-old in his left wrist and right thigh and the 18-year-old in his back, Pacheco said.

Both victims were taken to Northwestern Hospital. The 17-year-old is in stable condition, while the 18-year-old is listed in serious condition, she said.

The white SUV fled the scene, continuing southbound down Jeffery Avenue and turning east onto 96th Street, which is where the shooter opened fire on the 15-year-old boy, striking him in his chest and back, Pacheco said.

The boy is in serious condition after being taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center. 

No one is in custody.

• Around 5:38 a.m., a man, 21, was stopped at a stop sign in the 4600 block of West Adams Street in Austin when men came up to his car with a gun, Pacheco said.

As the victim drove off, the men fired shots, striking the victim in his upper lip, Pacheco said.

The victim drove himself to Loretto Hospital where he is in stable condition.

• At 3:36 a.m., a 17-year-old boy was shot in the 2500 block of West Cortland Street in Logan Square. 

He was a passenger in a dark-colored Honda Accord when two men shouted gang slogans and fired shots as the car drove past, striking him in his lower leg, Pacheco said.

He was taken to St. Mary's Hospital where his condition had stabilized, Pacheco said.

Police said the boy is a self-admitted gang member.

No one is in custody.

• About 10 minutes earlier, a man believed to be in his 20s was shot in Back of the Yards. 

Someone shot the man in his right forearm in the 4800 block of South Laflin Street, Pacheco said.

He was taken to Holy Cross Hospital, and his condition is unknown, she added.

No other information was immediately available.

• Around 2:30 a.m., a 17-year-old girl was walking on the sidewalk in the 5900 block of South Maplewood Avenue in Chicago Lawn when she heard shots and felt pain, Pacheco said.

She is in good condition after being taken to Holy Cross Hospital with a graze wound in her head, Pacheco said.

No one is in custody.

• Just before 1 a.m., a 14-year-old boy was critically injured and a woman, 19, was hurt in a Logan Square shooting.

They were sitting in a car stopped at a red light in the 3300 block of West Diversey Avenue when a green van pulled up and a man got out and opened fire, striking the boy in his abdomen and the woman in her right torso and right thigh, Pacheco said.

The woman was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital where she is in stable condition, while the boy is in critical condition, Pacheco said. 

Police said they do not know which hospital the boy was taken to.

No one is in custody.

• Earlier Saturday night at 9:23 p.m., a man was shot and seriously injured in Gage Park.

The man, 21, was discovered by police in the 5400 block of South Talman Avenue with a gunshot wound in his head, Pacheco said.

He is in serious condition after being transported to Mount Sinai Hospital, Pacheco said.

• Around 8:50 p.m., a man was shot in Hermosa.

Several people fired shots from a sidewalk in the 4200 block of West Wabansia Avenue at the man, 27, who was a passenger in a car, Pacheco said.

He was taken to Norwegian Hospital with a gunshot wound in his lower back, Pacheco said, adding that he's in stable condition.

No one is in custody.

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