2 killed, 6 wounded in shootings Tuesday in Chicago
CHICAGO - Two people were killed, and six others were wounded, in shootings Tuesday in Chicago.
- A 3-year-old boy was shot on the side of his face in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, according to Chicago police. A gunman pulled up in a white SUV and fired shots into a car occupied by the child and a woman, police said. The shooting happened around 8:30 a.m. in the 4500 block of West Congress Parkway. The woman drove the child to Stroger Hospital. The child was listed in good condition with a gunshot wound to the side of his face. A family member said the boy needs surgery to remove a bullet lodged in his temple. A 36-year-old woman in the car was uninjured.
3-year-old Chicago boy hurt in West Garfield Park drive-by shooting
A three-year-old boy was wounded in a drive-by shooting in Chicago's West Garfield Park neighborhood Tuesday morning.
- About an hour prior, two people were killed, and a man was critically wounded, in a shooting at a home in Back of the Yards on the South Side. A witness heard arguing followed by shots inside a residence in the 4900 block of South Marshfield Avenue about 7:10 a.m., police said. Officers searched the home and found three people with gunshot wounds. Two were pronounced dead at the scene. The third, a 28-year-old man, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition with gunshot wounds to his chest, shoulder and back.
2 shot dead, 1 critically wounded in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood
Chicago police are investigating after two people were found dead inside a home in the Back of the Yards neighborhood early Tuesday morning.
Four others were wounded in shootings across Chicago.
Seven people were shot Monday citywide.