At least one person was killed and three others were wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago as of Saturday. The ages of the victims range from 15 to 36. In the first shooting of the weekend, a 15-year-old boy was shot and killed in the 2800 block of South Komensky Avenue.
"I don't think a group of kids should be running around downtown," said the guardian of the boy, 15, who was shot Friday, two weeks after a tourist was shot nearby.
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A 15-year-old boy has been charged in connection with the shooting of a woman visiting downtown Chicago earlier this month.
According to Chicago Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd Ward), the juvenile male, pulled a gun from his backpack and fired several shots, with one bullet piercing the coat of the 46-year-old Connecticut woman, striking her in the arm. Witnesses who spoke with WGN said they heard abotu five or six shots. The female tourist survived.
A 15-year-old boy is in custody and facing charges in the shooting of a tourist March 9 in Streeterville. The victim was walking with her 11-year-old son in the 300 block of East Illinois Street when she was shot in the arm,
The woman was walking down the street with her 11-year-old son when she was struck by gunfire near the AMC River East 21 Movie Theater.
Chicago police said the 36-year-old victim was sitting on a porch when two armed men exited a vehicle, approached him, and began shooting before leaving the scene.
CHICAGO ( WGN) — An 18-year-old male was shot dead inside an Auburn Gresham home Monday morning, Chicago police announced. The shooting occurred around 9 a.m. in the 8000 block of. Paulina St. According to police, the male victim was inside a residence when he was struck in the head by gunfire. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Two masked assailants gunned down Jerry F. Aquino, who tried to hide behind a car in the 2800 block of South Komensky Avenue Friday evening, officials said.
Chicago police said the teen, identified by the Medical Examiner as Tawon Tribble, was inside the home in the 500 block of West 65th Place, when a gun was fired just after 6:45 p.m. The 13-year-old was struck in the chest. Tribble was taken to the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital, where he died.