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Several shootings left nine dead and at least 26 injured this weekend in Chicago, in several shootings in the center of the city, reported the authorities.
This Sunday morning, Gold Coast was the site of a homicide that took place at Sonesta ES Suites on the block 200 of East Walton Street. Hotel officials described the incident as an isolated incident. So far no arrests have been made in this regard.
Also, caround 5: 00 in the afternoon of the same Sunday, there was a shooting in the Loop that caused the cancellation of the function Moulin Rouge at the Nederland Theater.
Authorities reported that a man was shot in the hand and another man was shot in the ear in the alley of East Benton Place, north of the corner of Wasash Avenue and Randolph Street.
“We just heard a gunshot and we weren’t sure it was a gunshot at first and then a second after that we heard like four more ”, said a witness.
The two injured were transferred to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in stable conditions, at the moment there is no one in police custody.
On the other hand, a woman was killed in a shooting outside a River North bowling alley early Saturday morning while trying to help a friend amid gunfire. In this case, the shooting suspect has not been arrested either.
Authorities released a statement saying, “The Chicago Police Department will not tolerate violence anywhere in this city, including in our downtown area. town. In light of the shooting that took place in the theater district, additional resources will be deployed to supplement the We will continue to monitor the area and work closely with the Cook County Sheriff’s Police to improve security in our Theater District.” .
Furthermore, a man was killed while trying to rob two people on Saturday at two people this Saturday afternoon in Calumet Heights on the south side of Chicago. Two men were driving their vehicle from a store at 3: 45 in the afternoon when they started talk to the offender, who was identified as Xavier Johnson.
The criminal got into the back of the car, hit one of the victims inside the car with a gun and demanded what they were carrying, police said. One of the men pulled out a gun and shot Johnson, wounding him in the head, left leg, chest, officials reported. The offender was pronounced dead at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Near North Side, two women, one from 30 and the other from 26, were shot in the middle of an argument with a man, one of them was shot in the chest and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The woman aged 31 was injured in the left thigh and was taken to a health center in good conditions, reported ABC7.
In this sense, later two men were shot, one of them causing the death of one of them, in Albany Park, on the northwest side. At about 6: 00 on Saturday morning, officers found the two men, one from 30 and the other from 56 years, in the stable 3400 of West Sunnyside Avenue. The youngest died from a gunshot to the head. The other man was injured in the leg and transported to the Masonic Medical Center of Illinois, in serious condition.
That same day, but later, a woman was shot he left her lifeless in Rosemmor, on the Far South Side. The victim, aged 28 was arguing with someone on the block 500 of East 106th Street near 10: 45 on Saturday night when he was shot in the left chest loop.
Gun violence continues to plague residents of the city of Chicago, even after the new sheriff’s command post was officially inaugurated of Cook County in central less than a week ago.
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