At least a dozen people were wounded this evening in separate shootings on the city's Far South, South and North sides as black violence continues in Chicago.
An 18-year-old man, a 22-year-old man and a 23-year-old man were shot on the 2000 block of East 71st Street at 7 p.m., according to Chicago Fire Department officials. The 23-year-old refused medical attention for a graze wound.
The victims were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Stroger Hospital.
Also this evening, three male victims, ages 16, 40 and 44, were shot on the 10800 block of South Princeton Avenue at 6:13 p.m., according to fire officials. They were taken to Stroger and Metro South Hospital, officials said. The condition of the 16-year-old had stabilized, and the men were listed in serious-to-critical condition.
On the North Side, in the city's Uptown neighborhood, a 22-year-old man was shot near Windsor Avenue and Sheridan Road at 5:16 p.m., said police. That man was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center with a gunshot wound to his leg.
Another man, 30, was shot on the 5500 block of South Union Avenue and was taken in critical condition to Stroger Hospital, according to fire officials.
A 16-year-old girl was shot on the 700 block of East Oakwood Drive at 7:21 p.m. She was taken to Mercy Hospital and Medical Center with a wound to her arm, officials said.
In the shooting on 71st Street, about 20 onlookers stood outside a Dominick's parking lot. They stared across a set of Metra railroad tracks at police activity that cordoned off the entire 7000 block of South Chappel Avenue.
Detectives scoured the block for clues. Beat cops and other officers stood guard outside the yellow tape along 71st that sealed off Chappel.
The tape also sealed off access to a second crime scene along 71st between Chappel and Jeffery Boulevard.
A heavy police presence swarmed Clyde Avenue, the next street over. Officers stopped a car trying to travel through the block. Cops in SWAT uniforms walked through there with assault rifles.
Passersby were talking amongst themselves about the shooting, one of them likening the neighborhood to "Beirut."
A police helicopter hovered overhead.
A woman, who asked not to be identified, said she was trying to leave the Dominick's lot when she saw 71st blocked off. She said police were attending to a shooting victim close to the train tracks near 71st and Jeffery when she heard six or seven more shots.
She then saw two young men lying on the ground near 71st and Chappel, behind the Shoe Time boot store and in front of a single-family home, she said.
"I really hate to see summer coming down in this neighborhood," she said while standing outside her car in the lot.
Two CTA buses were traveling through the parking lot after police rerouted them from 71st street.
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