Three people were killed and at least 18 were wounded by gunfire from Saturday morning through Sunday morning, police said.
At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, a 14-year-old boy was killed and a 15-year-old boy was wounded in a shooting in Kenwood two blocks from where Hadiya Pendleton was killed in January 2013.
The 14-year-old, whom his mother identified as Tyjuan Poindexter, was dead on the scene after being shot in the head in the 4400 block of South Greenwood Avenue in the North Kenwood neighborhood, according to police.
A 15-year-old boy was shot twice in the leg in the same attack, and was taken to Comer Children's Hospital for treatment, said a police spokeswoman.
The two were outside when a vehicle drove by and someone inside opened fire, hitting them, police said.
Authorities said the boys who were shot did not have criminal records or gang affiliations. Witnesses told police there was a fight between two groups at Kennicott Park, 4434 S. Lake Park Ave., before the shooting, but police said they did not know if the fight was related to the shooting. Police said detectives were investigating whether the earlier fight may have been gang-related and if either of the two victims was somehow connected.
Police set up crime scene tape in front of red brick townhouses in the 1100 block of East 44th Street, near Greenwood Avenue.
The boy's mother, Michelle Poindexter, gripped the yellow police tape and wailed, yelling to the small group of neighbors huddled on the other side.
"All you spectators? Go ... home," she cried. "My son dead. My son no gangbanger. He ... 14 years old."
One neighbor was sitting on her couch when she heard "what must've been about 20 shots fired."
"They must've been chasing someone," she said. "All you could hear was pow, pow, pow, pow, pow."
Later, neighbors in hoodies and sweatshirts huddled together under the streetlamps. A few shared cigarettes, their eyes focused on the door of a home behind the police tape.
Two hours after the shooting, Poindexter continued to pace around the block, looking for a way to get past the yellow tape that blocked off the home.
A police officer told neighbors that police couldn't allow the mother to see her son's body, which was still on the premises, because she might try to reach for it or embrace it, and tamper with any evidence.
"She's a mom," a neighbor whispered, watching the mother as she trembled. "She's gonna keep trying to get through."
Another neighbor said the neighborhood is generally quiet. At first, she thought the gunshots were firecrackers.
"It was like this about 30 years ago. Gang-infested area," she said. "Now these little boys taking over. Thirteen, 14, 15. They just kids."
Just after 6 p.m. Saturday, a man believed to be in his 30s was killed in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood.
He was found with a gunshot wound to the neck just after 6 p.m. in the 1200 block of North Keeler Avenue, said Officer Nicole Trainor, a Chicago Police spokeswoman. He was pronounced dead on the scene. Police News Affairs had no other details to release, she said.
Video from the scene showed a man being tended to by emergency medical workers on a dirt parkway outside a parking lot behind a liquor store at the northeast corner of Keeler and Division Street, as a crowd begins to gather around the man. Officers then moved the crowd away from the shooting scene as a Fire Department ambulance moves up to next to the man, and he is put on a stretcher.
Another man, Hughvon Polk, 24, was fatally shot in a van at the same intersection on Aug. 24. A man charged with murder in that killing appeared in Cook County bond court on Saturday.
At 2:03 a.m., one person was killed and at least five were shot in a shooting in Englewood, said Officer Ron Gaines, a Chicago Police spokesman.
According to preliminary information, they were outside in the 5800 block of South LaSalle Street when someone approached from an alley and began firing.
A car that was fleeing the shooters crashed and rolled over near the intersection of South LaSalle Street and 57th Street. Six people were injured in the crash, said News Affairs Officer Jose Estrada.
Police did not immediately have further information.
The most recent non-fatal shooting was at 3:55 a.m., when a 35-year-old man was shot at a gas station in Edgewater, said Officer Jose Estrada, a Chicago Police spokesman.
He told police someone walked up to him in the 5700 block of North Broadway and struck up a conversation, then shot him in the hip and leg.
A friend drove him to Saint Francis Hospital, where he was listed in good condition.
At 3:25 a.m. a 29-year-old man was shot in Calumet Heights, Gaines said.
He was riding his bicycle in the 8700 block of South Dorchester Avenue when he heard shots and felt pain. He was struck in the leg and taken to Trinity Hospital. His condition had stabilized.
At 3:07 a.m., a 24-year-old man was shot in the Washington Park neighborhood. He was struck in the groin at 5500 South Wabash, near the CTA Red Line station. No further information was immediately available.
At 2:36 a.m., a 24-year-old man was shot in Lawndale. He was in the 2200 block of South Kolin Avenue when he was shot in the shoulder and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. No further information was immediately available.
At 1:54 a.m., a 33-year-old man was shot in the South Austin neighborhood, said Officer Ron Gaines, a Chicago Police spokesman.
He was standing in the 5300 block of West Congress Parkway when he heard gunfire and felt pain, Gaines said. He was struck twice in the groin and taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition.
At 8:15 p.m., two men ages 27 and 34 were shot in the Homan Square neighborhood, Trainor said. They were in the 3400 block of West Flournoy Street when they were shot.
The 27-year-old man was hit in the chest and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition. The 34-year-old was struck in the leg and taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition.
Just after 4 p.m., a 35-year-old man was wounded in Englewood, Trainor said.
The man was in the 6200 block of South Paulina Street when he was shot in the stomach. He was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition. The man told police he was in the area when he heard shots and felt pain, but was otherwise being uncooperative with investigators.
Just before 2 p.m., two teenage boys were shot near the former site of the Robert Taylor Homes in the city's Bronzeville neighborhood.
The boys, ages 16 and 17, were on Pershing Road just west of State Street, when they were shot, Trainor said. The 17-year-old was grazed in the arm and the 16-year-old was shot in the leg. Both were taken to Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, where they were listed in good condition, Trainor said.
The two were in a vehicle when another vehicle, possibly a maroon SUV, pulled up beside and someone fired shots, hitting them, Trainor said. The attacker's vehicle drove off, heading north on State Street, she said.
Just before noon, a 19-year-old man was wounded in a shooting in Fernwood.
He was shot in the arm in the 700 block of West 99th Street and taken in good condition to Little Company of Mary Hospital, said Gaines.
Saturday evening, a woman in her 30s went to Jackson Park Hospital when she continued to feel pain after having visited South Shore Hospital when she was shot about 8 a.m. near 84th Street and Ingleside Avenue, Trainor said.
The woman was treated and released from South Shore, but when she went to Jackson Park and her leg was scanned, staff there found that there was a projectile in her leg, and police were called.
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