Girl injured in gang crossfire
Police questioned a teenager Friday suspected of wounding a 12-year-old girl while trying to shoot rival gang members Thursday night on Chicago’s Southeast Side.
The girl was struck in the lower back about 9 p.m. while standing with the three males in the 8900 block of South Houston Avenue, authorities said. She was taken to University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital in serious condition, Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said.
About 90 minutes after the shooting, officers searching for the shooter approached a 15-year-old boy because they thought he may be breaking curfew. After determining his age, the officers gave him a ride home, police spokeswoman Monique Bond said. The boy has not been charged.
Bail set for man accused of shooting wife
Bail was set at $500,000 Friday for a 73-year-old man charged with shooting and wounding his 73-year-old wife in a quarrel in their Far South Side home.
Cook County Circuit Judge Raymond Myles set the bail for Maurice Barnes, who faces charges of aggravated domestic battery, unlawful use of a weapon and failure to register a gun.
The shooting happened about 10 p.m. Wednesday in the couple’s home in the 10500 block of South Eberhart Avenue, prosecutors said. The couple were quarreling when Barnes went to a bedroom and retrieved a .38-caliber handgun and fired at her twice, striking her once in the shoulder, authorities said.
As he was leaving the house, Barnes told his wife, “I should have killed you,” prosecutors said.
The woman was reported in good condition in Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn the morning after the incident, Officer Amina Greer said.
4 injured in crash between cars, ambulance
A Chicago Fire Department ambulance returning from a call on the Northwest Side on Friday was involved in a multivehicle crash that injured four people, including two paramedics.
The crash occurred about 10:45 a.m. at Addison Street and Kimball Avenue in the Irving Park neighborhood, Fire Department spokesman Rich Rosado said.
“One of our ambulances was returning home from a run when it was involved in an accident with two other cars,” Rosado said. There were no patients in the ambulance, and it did not have its emergency lights or siren activated at the time of the crash, he said.
The two paramedics in the ambulance were taken in fair condition to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Rosado said. Two people from the other cars were taken to Swedish Covenant Hospital, also in fair condition. None of the injuries was life-threatening, he said.
Police were investigating the cause of the crash, and information about citations was not immediately available, Officer Laura Kubiak said.
2 shot in West Pullman
Two men were shot and wounded Friday afternoon in the West Pullman neighborhood on Chicago’s Far South Side, police said.
The shooting occurred about 2:30 p.m. in the 11900 block of South Eggleston Avenue, Officer JoAnn Taylor said.
The two gunshot victims, both male, were taken in serious to critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, said Larry Langford, a spokesman for the Fire Department. He did not know their ages or have further details on their conditions.
No one was in custody, and the motive for the shooting was under investigation.
