A third person has died from a Christmas night shooting in East Chatham where seven people were shot, authorities said.
Steven Freeman, 33, was pronounced dead at 1:43 a.m. Friday at Stroger Hospital. His death was ruled a homicide due to complications from a gunshot wound to his back, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Freeman was with six other people on a porch in the 8600 block of South Maryland Avenue about 9:40 p.m. on Christmas when someone came out of an alley and began shooting. Two brothers, James and Roy Gill, were pronounced dead shortly after the attack. Four other people were shot.
Freeman, of the 7600 block of South Normal Avenue, was taken that night to Stroger Hospital in critical condition.
Christmas weekend was extraordinarily violent; 60 people were shot over the long weekend, far more than in recent years.
