Four people shot, one fatally, in Austin, police say (original) (raw)
Four people were shot, one fatally, on the West Side early Monday evening, authorities said.
Four men — 27, 32, 34 and 36 — were standing on the sidewalk in the 0-100 block of North Lockwood Avenue just before 7:30 p.m. in the Austin neighborhood when an SUV pulled up and someone inside opened fire at the group, according to Chicago police. All four were struck and transported to local hospitals.
Police originally listed the youngest victim as a 15-year-old boy, but later corrected his age.
The 32-year-old man was shot in the face and pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital. The 27-year-old was shot in his right leg and transported to Mount Sinai, where he was initially reported in fair condition. The 36-year-old was shot in his abdomen and transported to Stroger Hospital, while the 34-year-old was shot in his right leg and transported to Mount Sinai. The 36-year-old and 34-year-old were critically wounded, police said.
Squad cars sat in the intersection of Lockwood and Madison Street as motorists drove by through the night. Next to a convenience store just outside police tape, a small group of bystanders watched officers survey the area. Neighbors at the scene said they had heard at least 35 gunshots, and the shooting was unlike anything they’d heard before.
Behind police tape, a White Sox hat sat in a pool of blood on the sidewalk.
The shooting is the latest in a string of recent attacks across the city that have left several wounded. Over the weekend, seven people were injured in a pair of shootings in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood. A 13-year-old boy is facing half a dozen felony charges in connection to one of the shootings, where an 11-year-old boy and three other young teenagers were injured.
And last week, seven people were wounded — including two fatally — in a mass shooting in the New City neighborhood.
Police said there had been no arrests in Monday’s shooting as Harrison area detectives investigated.
The Tribune’s Armando Sanchez and Audrey Pachuta contributed.