In the period from Friday morning to Saturday morning in Chicago was wounded thirteen people and five shot dead. According to local police, one of those killed was a pregnant woman.
About 8:40 p.m. in the block of 4700 South Fairfield Avenue white SUV drove up to the car of the victims. Unknown opened fire on people who were inside the vehicle. Police, who arrived at the scene, found the four bodies. The press-Secretary of police in Chicago Anthony Guglielmi said that according to preliminary data, the murdered woman was in the position, but the exact information about this fact they will release after the autopsy. It became known that the killer fired the rifle.
Another shooting fatality occurred at about 11:15 a.m. in the area of Marquette Park. The man was shot in the chest and he died on the spot.
In other parts of Chicago during the day, recorded another 13 cases of shooting someone. They all survived, but were injured. The shooting was seen in such places Chicago:
- in the 2200 block at West 19th street;
- in the area of East Garfield;
- 2300 block of blue island Avenue;
- in the 8800 block of South Throop Street in the Gresham area;
- in the 2900 block of West Roosevelt Road;
- in the 4400-block on West Washington Boulevard;
- in the 7400 block of North Rogers Avenue,
- on the West side in East Garfield;
- 400 block of North Harding Avenue;
- in the 4900 block on West Kinzie;
- in the 11500 block of South Perry Avenue .
All victims delivered in city hospitals, where their condition stabilized.
Despite this horrifying statistic, according to the city police Department, the number of shootings and murders in Chicago have declined.
