Two people were pronounced dead, and at least two others were left in critical condition following shootings overnight on Chicago’s South Side, police said.
The latest shooting happened about 4:15 a.m. in the 8000 block of South Loomis Avenue in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood. Officers responded to a call of a shooting and founded a 33-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the leg.
He was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn . A witness at the scene told police the victim was shot while he was inside of the residence.
The deadly attack happened about 1:30 a.m. in the Woodlawn neighborhood.
Hours earlier, a 30-year-old man was found critically wounded on the far South Side in the West Pullman neighborhood.
Around 10 p.m. Monday, a 32-year-old man was sitting on the stairs of a residence in the 10100 block of South Wallace Street when a gunman opened fire, striking hi m to the back, police said.
He was taken in critical condition to UChicago Medicine.
Shortly after 9:15 p.m., officers responded to a call of a person shot and found an unresponsive 30-year-old man with a wound to the chest in the 9800 block of South Avenue J in the East Side neighborhood. He was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
He was identified as Carlos Casas of the same block where he was fatally wounded.
No one was in custody for any of the overnight shootings and detectives were investigating.