Early Thursday morning, a shooting on Chicago's Far South Side near the Alged Gardens left four people injured, including three men and one woman. According to WGN-TV, police were called to the 600 block of East 133rd Street just after 3:15 a.m. upon reports of the incident, where they found a group of individuals subjected to a sudden burst of gunfire.
The victims, identified as two men aged 21 and 31, were shot and transported in critical condition, a 29-year-old man was also shot but self-transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center where his condition was labelled as serious; the 29-year-old woman self-transported in stable condition to the same facility, as reported by ABC 7 Chicago. Further reflections on the precarious thread that life hangs upon were seen as the community grappled with the immediacy of violence infringing upon the peace of early morning.
Additional information disclosed by ABC 7 Chicago revealed the extent of the injuries suffered: the youngest male victim was wounded in the arm and thigh, a second man received multiple gunshot wounds, while the woman sustained an arm injury, and the other male victim, also 29, was shot in the shoulder.
