Five teens have been shot over the last two months along a stretch of storefronts and apartments in Logan Square, just down from the Western Avenue L station.
In early March, a 16-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy were shot nine hours apart on and near the 2400 block of West Moffat Street, according to police. Then Monday night, a 17-year-old boy and an 15-year-old boy were found shot in an apartment on the block.
Police have released few details of the shootings and have reported no arrests. But the neighbors who gathered at the scene of the latest shootings blamed gangs.
“It’s rare that stuff happens to someone random,” said Eric Gaylord, 33, who has lived in the Northwest Side neighborhood for more than year.
The latest shootings occurred around 7:10 p.m. Monday. Officers found the boys inside a white, three-story home after receiving a call of a person shot, police said.
The 17-year-old suffered a gunshot wound to the neck near the collar bone, and was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, while the younger boy was in good condition at Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the hand, police said.
As investigators shuffled in and out of the home, a Chicago police dog and handler canvassed gangways and lawns. Neighbors said they heard men yelling at the house before an ambulance arrived and removed one victim on a gurney.
Police earlier identified the victims as 18 and 16, but update the ages Thursday morning.
The two were among four people shot in Chicago over an hour late Monday.
* About 7:50 p.m. on the West Side, a 17-year-old boy was shot in the 5000 block of West Ferdinand Street in the Austin neighborhood, police said. He was in a car when someone in another car opened fire, striking him in the leg. The teen went to the 4900 block of West Chicago Avenue to seek medical help and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital.
* About 6:55 p.m. on the South Side, a 23-year-old man was shot in the back and buttocks in a vehicle near the 8600 block of South State Street, police said. The man went to St. Bernard Hospital and was transferred to Stroger Hospital, where he was listed in serious condition, police said.
Chicago Tribune reporter Tony Briscoe contributed.
