Overview
- Chicago’s West Garfield Park mass shooting, which unfolded Friday outside a barbershop on West Maypole Avenue, left three people dead and a 35-year-old man in critical condition after attackers jumped from a car and opened fire.
- Authorities later identified the Chicago victims as Rickia Williams, 32, Lavell Lee, 36, and Kenneth M. Bell Jr., 27, and Cook County Crime Stoppers offered up to $10,000 for information leading to an arrest as police reported the involved vehicle was found burned.
- In Paterson, New Jersey, a 20-year-old man was killed and three others, including a young teenager, were wounded Saturday evening near East 29th Street and 10th Avenue, with witnesses saying two people stepped out of a car and fired as a nearby child’s birthday party scrambled for cover.
- Elsewhere, police reported separate fatal shootings early Sunday with no arrests announced, including a 28-year-old man killed near 13th and Rogers on Milwaukee’s south side and a 24-year-old man killed in one of two related West Side shootings in San Antonio that also injured a 22-year-old man.
- The incidents share a pattern of attackers using cars to approach and flee, and they land as Chicago homicides this year have edged up 6% to 108 through April 12, intensifying calls for community tips to help drive open investigations forward.