Shooter At Party Opens Fire, 4 hurt
CHICAGO (STMW) -- Violence erupted during an outdoor party in the Garfield Park community on the West Side Sunday morning, leaving four people shot including a 16-year-old boy and a 30-year-old woman.
It happened about 5 a.m. Sunday at 310 S. Springfield Ave., and marked the second shooting of the morning in the same area that left four people wounded.
The first occurred at 2:28 a.m. and wounded four men nearby in the 4000 block of West West End Avenue.
In the latest attack, partygoers were outside at the Springfield address when an argument erupted among the guests. Someone who was involved in the argument pulled out a gun and fired into the crowd, striking the four people – a 30-year-old woman, a 16-year-old boy, a 30-year-old man and an 18-year-old man, police said.
All were hospitalized at Mount Sinai Hospital, where the 18-year-old man who was shot in the back was in serious condition. The other three were in good condition, police said.
Fire Media Affairs spokesman Quention Curtis said two of those shot "walked in" to Mount Sinai and he did not know their conditions but he put the conditions of two who were taken by ambulance as fair and good.
The shooter was not in custody as of 9 a.m., police said.
Harrison Area detectives are investigating.
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