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Two Killed in Separate Overnight Attacks on Chicago’s South and Southwest Sides

Police say detectives are investigating with no arrests reported.

Overview

  • Two men sitting in a blue hatchback in Bronzeville were shot early Saturday, leaving the 58-year-old driver dead from a neck wound and a 26-year-old passenger grazed in the head.
  • In Gage Park, a 65-year-old man on the sidewalk died after a blue SUV driver argued with him, drove onto the curb, hit him, and fled east on 51st Street.
  • Chicago police counted at least one person dead and three others injured in weekend shootings across the city, with victims ranging in age from their 20s to late 50s.
  • Friday night brought two nonfatal cases in which SUVs pulled up to men on foot before shots were fired, wounding a 20-year-old on North Pulaski and a 48-year-old on South Racine.
  • Investigators in Area One are handling the cases, and police say it remains unclear where the gunfire in the Bronzeville attack came from.