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Mass Shooting at 51st and Calumet Leaves One Dead

Investigations are active following shootings described as targeted or domestic that produced arrests and search warrants.

Overview

  • The mass shooting that wounded five people happened Thursday night at 51st Street and South Calumet Avenue and a 44-year-old man later died from his injuries.
  • Police say several other shootings and a stabbing across Chicago’s South Side that night left another man dead and multiple people injured.
  • Officers arrested a woman at the scene of a West Side domestic shooting and took another woman into custody after a separate Englewood shooting that police say followed a stabbing.
  • Plainfield police executed a search warrant after a 16-year-old was shot and identified an 18-year-old suspect but reported no arrest, and detectives continue to investigate.
  • Separately, Chicago police arrested a 17-year-old and charged him with first-degree murder in the May killing of 13-year-old DeAntwan McKeever, highlighting ongoing youth involvement in local gun violence and prosecutions.