CHICAGO — An 11-year-old boy shot while walking to the store.
A 13-year-old boy hit in the arm during an attack that killed a man and wounded two others. Six people wounded in a park around the same time, also on the South Side.
Over 14 hours Monday, at least 21 people were shot in Chicago. Two of them were killed. Four of the wounded were boys under 18.
It was the most violent day of the year, according to Tribune data, and it ended with the quadruple shooting on a residential street on the Far South Side. The four were outside in the 12300 block of South Yale Avenue in West Pullman around 10:50 p.m. when a 19-year-old man fired into a gangway, witnesses told police. Someone fired back, police said.
The 19-year-old was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. The 13-year-old boy was shot in the arm and stabilized at Comer Children’s Hospital. Two others were stabilized at Christ, a 16-year-old boy with wounds to the thigh and foot and an 18-year-old woman shot in the thigh.
Five minutes earlier, six people were wounded when someone sprayed bullets in Ellis Park in the 3700 block of South Vincennes Avenue in the Ida B. Wells/Darrow Homes neighborhood, police said.
Four of those shot were treated at University of Chicago Medical Center. A 27-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the leg was stabilized. A 24-year-old man was in good condition with a gunshot wound to the ankle. A 26-year-old man was also in good condition with a wound to the ankle. A 20-year-old was stabilized with wounds to the hip and leg.
A 15-year-old boy was shot in the ankle and was treated at Mercy Hospital, where he was in good condition. A 19-year-old man was stabilized at Northwestern Memorial Hospital with wounds to the hip, buttock and arm.
Earlier in the evening, the 11-year-old boy was shot in the leg while walking to the store in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side, Chicago police said.
The boy was hit in the lower leg around 6:20 p.m. in the 300 block of East 61st Street. He was taken to U. of C. Medical Center, where he was stabilized.
Police said he was not the intended target.
Monday’s first fatal shooting happened around 3 p.m. in the 13300 block of South Prairie Avenue in the Eden Green neighborhood on the Far South Side, authorities said.
Derrick D. Golden, 46, was inside a car on the block with a passenger who was quarreling with someone else, police said. Moments later, shots rang out and Golden suffered five to seven gunshot wounds to the chest, police said. The passenger was not injured.
Golden, of the 8600 block of South Wood Street, was taken to the U. of C. Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 3:43 p.m., police said.
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