Overview
- The string of shootings, which occurred Tuesday night into early Wednesday, hit mostly teenagers across South and Southwest Side neighborhoods and left one 16-year-old dead.
- Police say the Little Village boy was shot in the head and chest after a car drove past and he later died at Mount Sinai Hospital.
- Drive-by or vehicle-linked attacks wounded multiple teens in South Austin, West Pullman, the Far South Side and South Deering, with victims taken to Mount Sinai, Comer Children's, Advocate Christ and the University of Chicago hospitals.
- Less than 30 minutes after the Little Village fatal shooting, officers reported a separate Little Village home stabbing that killed a woman and wounded a 59-year-old man, and a weapon was recovered at that scene.
- Area detectives are investigating multiple scenes with no arrests reported and local outlets report differing totals of victims, ranging from six to nine shot and up to two stabbed, which could complicate the probe and raise community alarm.