Overview
- The wave of violence began Thursday and left five people dead and several others wounded across multiple neighborhoods, with investigators treating the cases as separate incidents.
- Officers found a 27-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man shot inside a vehicle on the 5900 block of South Ellis Avenue; a firearm was recovered at that scene and both victims later died at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
- Other deadly episodes included a drive-by near Promontory Point that killed a 25-year-old man and wounded a 25-year-old woman, an East Garfield Park attack that killed a 49-year-old man and wounded a 13-year-old boy, and a fatal shooting in Uptown that left a 21-year-old man dead.
- Earlier in the week a 15-year-old boy was found with a gunshot wound on the West Side and died at Stroger Hospital, and dispatch records reported no 911 shots-fired call for that incident.
- Local reporting has linked gaps in immediate detection and response to the city’s September 2024 end of its ShotSpotter contract, and police have not announced arrests as area detectives continue active probes.