Five Slain, At Least 10 Wounded In Shootings
CHICAGO (STMW) - An ongoing gang conflict that may have resulted in the deaths of five people on the West Side since noon Friday, according to a police source. At least ten other people were wounded during unrelated shootings in other areas of the city Friday night into early Saturday.
A police source said late Saturday morning that a gang conflict that started about two weeks ago at Lexington Streets and Pulaski Road is to blame for the five slayings. Details were not immediatley available about the reported conflict.
About noon Friday, Aaron Brown was with several other young people on a corner in the 3600 block of West Ohio Street when someone shot him and killed him, according to a Harrison District police lieutenant.
Brown, 26, was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital at 12:37 p.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
At 9:25 p.m., Jovan Richardson, 23, was inside a vehicle at Jackson and Kilpatrick when an black vehicle approached alongside his and someone inside fired a handgun numerous times, striking him at least once in the head, police said. His vehicle then crashed into a tree. Richardson, who police said was the only person in the vehicle, was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. hospital of Cook County where he was pronounced dead at 9:50 p.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
Another West Side shooting at 9:25 p.m. involved a 19-year-old man named Jonathon Banks, according to police and the medical examiner's office.
Someone shot Banks in the head and he was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 12:09 a.m., according to the medical examiner's office.
An assailant opened fire into a parked 4-door Chevrolet about 1:45 a.m. at 2043 W. Polk St., claiming the fourth and fifth West Side murder victims, police said. Officers riding in a police wagon were already in the area when they heard the shots, and responded to the Polk Street address, finding the two victims inside the car.
Thirty-seven-year-old Nicole Robinson, was pronounced dead at 2:14 a.m. at Mount Sinai Hospital while her and a still-unidentified companion , a man in his 30s was dead on the scene, according to the medical examiner office, which said both suffered multiple gunshot wounds.
No one is in custody for any of the five deaths as of 11:30 a.m .Saturday and Harrison Area detectives are investigating.
In other other areas of the city, ten other people were wounded during shootings from Friday night into early Saturday. Belmont, Calumet and Wentworth Area detectives are investigating these shootings.
On the North Side in the Rogers Park neighborhood at 7:09 p.m. Friday, two men, 39, and 53,were walking at 1727 W. North Shore Ave. when they heard a noise, and the 39-year-old realized he'd been shot in the leg, according to a Rogers Park District police lieutenant.
They did not see the shooter and called for an ambulance, which took him to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, the lieutenant said.
At 9:45 p.m. on the South Side, a girl was shot by an assailant riding a bicycle near Hoyne Park, police said. An unknown male riding a bike fired shots into a crowd in the 3400 block of South Hamilton Avenue, hitting the 17-year-old girl, who was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where she was in "stable" condition, according to police News Affairs.
Two male teens, 17, were shot during s incidents about a half a mile apart on the South Side late Friday and early Saturday. The first victim told police he was walking down the street in the 6600 block of South Drexel at 10:45 p.m. when he felt a sharp pain in his right knee, and found he was shot, police said. He was taken to the University of Chicago Hospitals where he was in good condition.
At 12:45 a.m in the 6600 block of South Langley, the other 17-year-old was sitting on the front porch when two unknown gunmen approached on foot and fired shots in the victim's direction, according to police News Affairs.
The victim suffered gunshot wounds to the arm, leg and hand and he was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where he was in "stable" condition.
A gas station at the intersection of South Michigan Avenue and East 47th Street, was the site of another South Side shooting that wounded a man and a woman at 10:47 p.m., said police News Affairs Officer Ronald Gaines.
The assailant opened fire into a crowd there, striking a 45-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman. Gaines said the man was taken in good condition to the University of Chicago Hospitals while the woman was shot in the arm and was taken in good condition to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Gaines said.
Police are also investigating an attack that wounded two 16-year-old boys that occurred at 11:57 p.m. in the 1300 block of West 79th Street. Someone confronted the teens and shot them, leaving both wounded in the legs, according to police News Affairs. They were both taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where they were in "stable" condition.
At 2 a.m. someone shot a male in the head at South Paulina and West 52nd streets, leaving him in critical condition, according to Gaines. Gaines said the victim was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition.
At 2:44 a.m. Chicago Lawn District police officers responded to 7931 S. Kedzie for man who had been shot in the leg at 55th Street and South Lowe, police said.
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