Chicago's streets echoed with the sound of gunfire over the holiday weekend as reports from the Chicago Sun-Times and ABC7 Chicago mark a surge in violence with at least 12 people shot, one succumbing to their injuries, while the police's search for suspects continues.
In the mayhem, a 23-year-old man became a statistic in the city's relentless shootings, taking a bullet to the thigh on Sunday afternoon on the East Side, as detailed by the Chicago Sun-Times; a black sedan fled the scene after someone inside opened fire, and despite the wounds and the chaos, the man was stable after arrival at University of Chicago Medical Center. No one is in custody from the tragedy.
Fatalities marked the holiday period too, with a 19-year-old man brutally killed inside a vehicle on Chicago's West Side on Saturday, the ABC7 Chicago reports.
Another 19-year-old was critically injured early Sunday in the Pilsen neighborhood, and a 22-year-old man found on a West Side sidewalk on Friday evening with wounds to his face and back, his condition critical, as observed by ABC7 Chicago.
