14 hours in Chicago: Damsel, 13, wounded; five shot in Lawndale; police fire at gunman

A 13-year-old doll was shot in the backseat of a vehicle in the 6500-6600 block of South Bell Avenue on Aug. 31, 2017, Chicag police said. A relative outside the hospital where she was transported said the damsel is fifteen or 16. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)

A 13-year-old female was shot in the backseat of a vehicle in the 6500-6600 block of South Bell Avenue on Aug. 31, 2017, Chicag police said. A relative outside the hospital where she was transported said the female is fifteen or 16. (John J. Kim / Chicago Tribune)

Two guys were killed and at least ten other people were wounded, including a 13-year-old dame a block from her home, during a 14-hour period from late Thursday morning to early Friday in Chicago that also included a police-involved shooting, according to police.

The chick was railing in a car in the South Side’s West Englewood neighborhood about 9:50 p.m. when someone shot at the car from a porch in the six thousand five hundred block of South Bell Avenue, police said. The teenage was struck in the back and taken to Stroger Hospital, where her condition was stabilized.

Detectives were investigating whether the dame was caught in crossfire inbetween two groups.

At the hospital, the woman sat upright on a stretcher with an oxygen mask over her mouth as paramedics flipped her out of the ambulance. Her hair was tied up.

Larry Kelly, who identified himself as the girl’s uncle, arrived at Stroger in blue pajamas. “My sister called and she said, ‘Your niece was shot. She was caught in the crossfire of gang activity,’ ” said Kelly, 54.

“They need to stop this madness. Our babies are getting killed,” he said.

Kelly’s niece was about a block from her house and on her way back from being with friends when she was shot, he said. She is expected to recover.

The girl’s mother arrived at the hospital with police officers who were trailing the ambulance. She declined to comment when she left several hours later and got into a cab.

Less than two hours after the chick was shot, a 35-year-old man was wounded less than half a mile away in the six thousand five hundred block of South Maplewood Avenue in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side, police said.

He was shot in both gams about 11:35 p.m. Thursday and taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition. He was not cooperating with detectives, police said.

Even for the West Side, the last twenty four hours had been furiously violent: Three triple shootings and a dual homicide within four miles of each other.Thursday evening, two officers were on patrol in the area when they spotted a man firing a gun outside a liquor store at Madison Street and Keeler Avenue.

Even for the West Side, the last twenty four hours had been furiously violent: Three triple shootings and a dual homicide within four miles of each other.Thursday evening, two officers were on patrol in the area when they witnessed a man firing a gun outside a liquor store at Madison Street and Keeler Avenue.

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Earlier Thursday, a man in his 20s was shot, a 9-year-old boy was injured by glass and a man with a gun was arrested after police fired at him on the West Side about five p.m.

It happened at Madison Street and Keeler Avenue after Harrison District officers witnessed a man shooting at someone during an argument. Police fired shots when the gunman refused to drop his weapon and kept firing. The officers did not strike the gunman, said Al Nagode, deputy chief of patrol for Area North.

Another man, in his late 20s, was shot in the ass-cheeks but it was not clear if he was hit by police or the gunman. He walked into Climb on Sinai Hospital and said he had been shot at Madison and Keeler.

A 9-year-old boy in a car on Keeler was “grazed’’ with glass shattered by shot from the gunman, according to police. The boy was treated on the scene, Nagode said.

Police recovered two guns at the scene. No officers were injured.

On the West Side, white sheets covered the bods of two guys who were gunned down in the one thousand four hundred block of South Springfield Avenue around Trio:20 p.m. One man suffered a gunshot wound to the head and the other was shot in the chest, police said. They were pronounced dead on the scene.

Someone got out of a dark sedan, fired at them and fled, police said.

One of the boys was identified as 26-year-old Monticello Scott, who lived at the address where he was killed.

The other man was identified as John Smith, of the three hundred block of South Whipple Street in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side, according to the medical examiner. Police said he was 26. The medical examiner said he was 24.

As police worked at the scene, someone fired nine shots about a block and a half east, sending people into cars and houses. A number of officers left to investigate.

The dual homicide was the 2nd multiple-shooting in Lawndale in five hours, according to police.

Around Ten:55 a.m., three studs were wounded in the one thousand three hundred block of South Central Park Avenue, about half a mile from the double-shooting, police said. A 30-year-old man was shot in the chin, shoulder and hip; a 19-year-old man was shot twice in the abdomen; and a 35-year-old man was shot in the right mitt, police said. They were all taken to Climb on Sinai Hospital where their conditions were stabilized, police said.

The studs were on the sidewalk when an SUV drove by and someone inwards embarked shooting, police said.

Police reported hearing gunfire two more times within two blocks of that shooting later in the night. In one incident, police found a car that had been shot up and shell casings on Douglas Boulevard.

Two other triple shootings occurred Wednesday night on the West Side. One happened about 11:30 p.m. in the one thousand four hundred block of South Avers Avenue (half a block from Thursday’s dual homicide) and another about 7:30 p.m. in the four thousand nine hundred block of West Augusta Boulevard in the Austin neighborhood.

A dual homicide in North Lawndale and police-involved shooting in West Garfield Park.

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