As Sunday drew to a close in Chicago, a 15-year-old girl was shot while standing on a West Side street, just half an hour after two teenaged boys were wounded while sitting in a car at a South Side gas station.
The attacks capped another violent weekend in the city, with at least 10 people killed and 50 others wounded. The youngest victim was a 15-year-old boy shot dead on the Far South Side, blocks from where his older brother was fatally shot in April.
The level of violence was similar to the same weekends in 2016 and 2017, the worst years for shootings in Chicago since the 1990s.
This was the first weekend since a new specialized citywide unit was announced to stop flare-ups in violence. It was also the fourth weekend in a row that a child under 16 was fatally shot in Chicago.
Over the July 4 weekend, a 7-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy were killed. The weekend before, a 20-month-old boy and a 10-year-old girl were killed. A week earlier, five children were fatally shot, including a 3-year-old boy riding in a car with his father.
On Sunday night, two boys 14 and 17 were in a car with a 20-year-old man when a silver SUV approached and someone opened fire around 11:30 p.m. in the 7000 block of South Damen Avenue in the West Englewood neighborhood, police said.
The man was shot several times and taken to Holy Cross Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
The older teenager was shot in the right arm and the younger one was shot in the back, police said.
They were both taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in good condition.
No arrests have been made.
Just before midnight, a 15-year-old girl was shot on the West Side, police said. She and a 29-year-old man were standing on a sidewalk in the 4200 block of West Monroe Street in the West Garfield Park neighborhood when they heard gunshots, police said.
The man was shot in the calf and the girl was shot in the left knee, calf and shoulder, police said. They were both taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition.
No arrests have been made.
