Seven people, including a 12-year-old boy and three other young teenagers, were injured in a pair of shootings in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood Saturday night and early Sunday morning, according to Chicago police.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether there was a link between the two shootings, which took place within blocks of each other and less than three hours apart.
The first shooting, around 9:40 p.m. Saturday, wounded a 12-year-old boy, two 13-year-old boys and a 14-year old boy. The boys were shot near the intersection of East 45th Street and South Prairie Avenue and taken to Comer Children’s Hospital for treatment, police said.
The oldest victim was in fair condition with a gunshot wound to the back, while the two 13-year-old victims were wounded in the right leg and left foot, police said. They and the 12-year-old victim, wounded in the left leg, were in good condition, police said.
Just after midnight Sunday morning, a few blocks away, three more people were shot at a party held outdoors at West 46th and South Federal Streets. The first victim, an 18-year-old woman, was shot in the abdomen and taken to University of Chicago Hospital in critical condition, police said. The other two victims, a 19-year-old woman and a man whose age wasn’t immediately known, were at the same hospital in good condition, police said. The second woman was shot in the hand while the man was shot in the shoulder.
By 12:45 a.m., Wentworth (2nd) District police were clearing the last of the crowd from the grassy lots between the Metra tracks and Cambridge Classical Academy. Trash and a few abandoned shoes were strewn across the street as people sped away on motorbikes and police played an automated tow warning on a loudspeaker.
No one was in custody for either shooting, CPD representatives said Sunday morning, and Wentworth area detectives were investigating.
