An afternoon shooting in the Englewood neighborhood has left a man dead Saturday, a day in which at least 10 people were shot, according to authorities.
At 3:10 p.m. someone shot a male victim multiple times in the abdomen in the 5500 block of South Loomis Boulevard, News Affairs Officer Daniel O’Brien said.
The victim, a man in his 20s, was taken from the scene of the shooting in the Englewood neighborhood to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, where he was pronounced dead at 3:52 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Police were questioning a possible shooter, News Affairs Officer Amina Greer said.
Saturday night about 8:30 p.m., a 39-year-old man was shot in the West Town neighborhood, police said.
The man was taken from the 1800 block of West Maypole Avenue to Stroger with a gunshot wound to the buttocks.
About 7:10 p.m., two men were injured in a shooting in the 5100 block of West Oakdale Avenue, O'Brien said.
A 25-year-old man was taken in critical condition to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the back, O'Brien said. A 21-year-old man was taken to the same hospital in good condition with a gunshot wound to the wrist, O'Brien said.
The shooting happened in the Cragin neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Late Saturday morning, a shooting in the Back of the Yards neighborhood left another victim shot in the abdomen and seriously wounded.
Someone shot the male in the abdomen at 11:48 a.m. in the 4500 block of South Marshfield Avenue, according to Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Michael Sullivan.
He was taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in serious condition, Sullivan said.
The circumstances surrounding the shooting were not known immediately but Sullivan said no one was arrested.
Earlier Saturday, four people were shot in two separate incidents before the sun rose, and a fifth man was killed in a West Side shooting.
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