(WEST SIDE) CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – A 48-year-old man was killed and seven others were wounded in a drive-by shooting Saturday on Chicago’s West Side that the police said was gang-related.
A 72-year-old woman was among the wounded, according to the police, who said she was shot in an ankle and was not among the most seriously injured.
The man, shot in the chest and groin, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The 72-year-old woman was taken to Stroger Hospital, along with a 42-year-old woman who was shot twice in the right thigh, a 43-year-old man shot in the leg and back, and a 45-year-old man shot in the groin, police said.
A 31-year-old man shot in the wrist was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said.
A 20-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to the right leg showed up at Mount Sinai Hospital.
“It’s crazy,” said Rashauda Tolbert, a niece of the dead man. “Kids can’t play outside. People can’t sit on their porches.
“The shooting has been going on for days,” said Tolbert, who she was on her way to her security job when she heard about what happened and rushed back to her family.
“Why we gotta be prisoners in our homes?”
A detective on the scene said the shooting was gang-related, apparently related to a shooting on July 4.
This time, whoever pulled the trigger sprayed bullets across what appeared to be a large area.
Yellow evidence markers stretched across an area of more than a block.
The shooting happened just before 6 p.m. on West Flournoy Street at South Francisco Avenue.
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