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Violent shootings in Chicago kills 5 more: All you need to know

Chicago shooting: The shooting came about 16 hours after three women and a man were fatally shot and four other people suffered gunshot wounds inside a house on the South Side.

Published on: Jun 17, 2021, 01:17:53 IST
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The spate of shootings in Chicago has left five more people dead on Tuesday after the day saw mass shooting's on the city's south side. Five more people standing outside Chicago's West Side were killed by possibly multiple offenders, police said.

Police work the scene of a shooting in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on Tuesday June 15, 2021 in Chicago. (AP)
Police work the scene of a shooting in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on Tuesday June 15, 2021 in Chicago. (AP)
  • Four men and one woman were shot about 9:20 pm Tuesday near Garfield Park, possibly "by multiple offenders," police said. They were rushed to area hospitals, where a 38-year-old man was listed in critical condition while the others were listed in good condition.
  • The shooting came about 16 hours after three women and a man were fatally shot and four other people suffered gunshot wounds inside a house on the South Side.
  • Police have not made any arrests in either shooting, nor have they made arrests in the death of a 16-year-old boy who was shot Tuesday night in the city's Gage Park neighborhood. Police said a gunman opened fire on him and a 20-year-old man who was critically injured.
  • Those and other shootings added to a growing roster of people who have been shot in the city and around the United States. Several mass shootings over the weekend stoked concerns about a spike in US gun violence heading into the summer, as coronavirus restrictions ease and more people are free to socialize.
  • Chicago, which saw a dramatic spike in the number of homicides in 2020, is on a pace to eclipse that year's total. Even before the latest shootings, according to the police department's statistics there were 282 homicides as of Sunday compared with 269 for the same period in 2020.
  • A database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University that tracks mass killings — defined as four or more dead, not including the perpetrator — shows Tuesday’s shooting in Chicago was the 18th mass killing, of which 17 were shootings, so far this year in the US.
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